Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 16:30:41 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:25:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT seems to be the most interesting case.
> It's anyway not usable for distribution kernels, and AFAIR the ACPI
> people prefer to get the kernel working with all original DSDTs
> (which usually work with at least one other OS) than letting the people
> workaround the problem by using a custom DSDT.

Not true at all. For SuSE kernels, we have a patch that lets people
load a new DSDT from initramfs due to broken machines requiring a
replacement in order to work properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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