Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:55:35PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >  CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9
> 
> But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is
> impossible for a non-hacker.
> 
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php has quite a few.

The problem is getting the fixed dsdt in use without recompiling your
kernel, since quite a few people, especially non-technical ones, use vendor
kernels. There's an approach that uses initrd, but this isn't merged
yet. I'd say it should be, assuming no better solution can be found.

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