Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:21:09PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
> >> Yes, sure. But real non-technical people won't replace their DSDT
> >> either.
> >Their distro could do it for them :-) A simple approach would be to
> >store md5sums of known-bad dsdt's and xdeltas to fixed ones, and the 
> >fixed one gets placed in /etc where mkinitrd automagically picks it up
> >whenever a new kernel is installed.
> 
> I don't think distro can do that, because they are not the owner of
> DSDT.
That's what I said xdelta, so the only "new" code is patches against
the broken vendor code in /proc/acpi/dsdt. But it's messy even
that way, I know.

But that's all userspace, the kernel should still make it possible (via
initrd or something else ;) )




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