On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:19:58PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:19:58 +1100 > From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Custom DSDT--The Debian Way? > > On 20 Dec 2004, David Goodenough wrote: > > On Monday 20 December 2004 04:24, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> The DSDT on my Dell Inspiron 300m seems buggy--KDE tells me I "appear > >> to have a partial ACPI installantion," and I get a bunch of ACPI > >> errors on bootup. > > [...] > > >> But there are a bunch of different methods listed at the ACPI > >> project: A kernel patch that statically links the custom DSDT in, > >> another patch that allows the kernel to load a custom DSDT in an > >> initrd. (N.B.: These patches appear to be against a vanilla > >> kernel...) > >> > >> So what's The Debian Way to do it? What do other folks do? > >> > > I asked a very similar question a couple of weeks ago, and got the > > answer that there was no Debian way, and that the ACPI group preferred > > way is to statically link the customer DSDT. > > > > I have to say that I think this is the wrong choice, as the initrd > > choice gives the option of using a stock kernel, which the link in > > choice does not. > > Last time I checked, using the initrd hack prevented you using an initrd > to boot with. This is incompatible with both future kernel plans where > early boot-time code like partition detection move to an initrd, and > with Debian kernels -- they use an initrd by default.
I've used initrd patch from http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml applied on debian kernel 2.4.27 without any problem. Didn't prevent me from using initrd on boot. -- Alexei Chetroi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
