Experiences with severn and 2.6 kernel on a dell laptop.

[Laur Ivan]

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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:04, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Laur Ivan wrote:
> > I patched the kernel with a custom dsdt for acpi and went to compiling
> > the kernel. Few warnings and everything compiled fine. make
> > modules_install created the "custom" set of modules, and make install
> > generated the initrd and grub entry nicely.
>
> regarding the ACPI patch, are you referring to the one at
> acpi.sourceforge.net?  i just grabbed that one, and it at least
> patched cleanly against 2.6.0-test2-bk4.  perhaps that's today's
> project.

Not really. the wiki on the acpi.sourceforge.net has a small change to 
drivers/acpi/osl.c in order to be able to load a custom dsdt. I just applied 
that, as my purpose was to get the battery stuff working.

btw, I think the kernel could use the ability to load a dsdt from a file 
(other than initrd).

>
> rday
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