On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:16 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > I've just spend a couple of hours fixing my BIOS : > http://hughsient.livejournal.com/5884.html > > To do this, I needed to re-write the _BIF and _BST ACPI methods to > actually interface with the hardware in a sane way. > > Using Ubuntu or SUSE, using a new dsdt would be as easy as adding it to > the initrd. BUT on Fedora you have to build a custom kernel (not > trivial), patch it to add the custom dsdt functionality, add the dsdt to Is it really that hard to: 1) grab the desired kernel .src.rpm, install it as normal 2) cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS 3) Add your patch to the specfile, copy it to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES 5) rpmbuild -ba --target i386 <kernel.spec> ? or am I missing some steps/complications? Dan > the initrd and then boot this new custom kernel. > > I do understand the policy of not including random patches to the kernel > source, but given: > > * There are lots (hundreds?) of existing out-of-tree patches to the > default fedora kernel. > * Most of the the other big distros allow a user to load custom dsdt's > * The feature is already used by thousands of users. > * Installing a random dsdt into the initrd isn't the sort of thing you > can you trivially or accidentally. > > So, is there any good reason this feature isn't available on the Fedora > kernel? Thanks. > > Richard. > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
