From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Many laptops ship with nonstandard DSDTs for ACPI. Looking at http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml one can patch the kernel to include a custom dsdt in an initrd image. Why not include this kernel patch into the Fedora kernel image? That way users who patch their DSDT can just dump it into their existing initrd image and not mess with all the extra steps one now has to take to build a custom version of the Fedora patched kernel. You could even add a system-config-dsdt[-tui] app to add/update the DSDT in the initrd image. It'd be a great step in enhancing the out-of-the-box ACPI functionality.
the acpi code is complex enough that I'd prefer not to deviate away from mainline at all. Convince the upstream acpi folks to get it into Linus' kernel, and it'll end up in Fedora next time we rebase.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110511 ***