Custom DSDT Table in the fedora kernel at boot time

Joshua C. jjj123jjj at hushmail.com
Wed Jun 25 08:28:17 UTC 2008


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:38:03 +0200 Arjan van de Ven 
<arjan at infradead.org> wrote:
>
>as someone who works for Intel near the ACPI dev team (yes one 
>cube
>away)... lets put it this way:
>If Windows works with the BIOS, and Linux does not, that is a bug 
>that
>needs fixing in Linux. The ACPI team takes this and other bugs 
>VERY
>seriously; especially if the impact is severe functional 
>impairment and
>Windows does work. I would strongly suggest you file a bug in
>bugzilla.kernel.org attaching your dsdt.... 
>

Thank you for the advice. I filed a bugreport at 
bugzilla.kernel.org and this is how we got the bad dsdt table 
(vista and xp never expirienced this problem). the report is here: 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10237
As you can see all works well now. But I have to manually insert 
the dsdt in the kernel and recompile it for every kernel. :(

I think the acpi-dev-team did a great job finding and repairing 
this bug but there is nothing else they could do. Inclusion of my 
dsdt in the mainstream kernel is a bad idea because:
1. in the future the table could be repaired but i don't believe 
this.
2. en extra code will be needed to chack for the machine version 
and the bios and apply the patch only on my machine type. :(
3. the kernel shouldn't be a place to put working dsdt tables

Now I'm waiting for another solution to save the 30 min (+ config 
time) for recompilation.

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