Bug 110511

Summary: Load DSDT from initrd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Péter, Soós <sp>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 1CC: diego.santacruz, jgeorgeson, rh_bugzilla
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml
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This patch make it possible to add DSDT to initrd by mkinitrd
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The kernel patch to load the DSDT from initrd (for kernel 2.4.22-1.2129) none

Description Péter, Soós 2003-11-20 16:22:08 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table) often needs to be 
overridden because of broken BIOS implementations. If you want to use 
a customized DSDT you have to recompile the whole kernel as described 
on Intel's ACPI pages. But there is a kernel patch to make it 
possible to load DSDT from initial ramdisk (initrd).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Comment 1 Péter, Soós 2003-11-20 16:24:22 UTC 
Created attachment 96090 [details]
This patch make it possible to add DSDT to initrd by mkinitrd
Comment 2 diego.santacruz 2003-12-08 12:43:20 UTC 
Created attachment 96396 [details]
The kernel patch to load the DSDT from initrd (for kernel 2.4.22-1.2129)

I've been using this patch since long ago and it's really handy.
I've added to the src.rpm of kernel-2.4.22-1.2129 as patch 900 without any
problems.
Comment 3 Péter, Soós 2004-01-19 14:51:25 UTC 
The original site of the patch for both 2.4 and 2.6:
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2004-06-19 14:35:16 UTC 
I'd much rather see something worked out upstream with the ACPI
maintainers than take some new functionality which may eventually
differ from upstream.
Comment 5 Charles R. Anderson 2008-06-24 17:42:49 UTC 
*** Bug 169014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Charles R. Anderson 2008-06-24 17:43:01 UTC 
*** Bug 140215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***