Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot

From: Len Brown
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 14:04:50 EST


> We used to have
> a different way but it was even uglier: append the DSDT after the
> initramfs, and then access it _directly_. This implies teaching
> populate_rootfs() to not panic when seeing DSDTs and loosing the benefit
> of the compression.

DSDT's are generally 4KB to 64KB, so I don't think compression
for a DSDT override is important.

-Len
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