Hi, On Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 18:05, Joshua C. wrote: > I had a serios problems with my bios and at the end it was the dsdt > table that was broken. this gave me alot of kernel panics untill i > figured it out. Now I have to recompile the kernel every time a new > one goes out in order to put in my custom dsdt table and enable it. > this takes about 30 min and I cannot use any of the devel kernels. > > There is, however, a kernel patch at gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml which > enables the kernel to load a custom dsdt table from the initrd. and > this is alot faster than the previous method with the kernel > recompilation. > > Will it be possible for this patch to go in the mainstream fedora > kernel? This has already been discussed and the answer was no: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=110511 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140215 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169014 Actually these bug reports should be marked as duplicates. > Some other distros are using it and I don't see any reason why > fedora shouldn't use it either. I know this kind of tainting the > kernel is "dangerous" but it is the only way for user (like me) > with broken bios/dsdt table to run their kernels. And because lots > of bioses are tested only on windows there are no other way than > inserting a custom dsdt for linux. > > Any sugestions or downsides of this method that can prove the > exclusion of this patch from the mainstream fedora kernel? Quoting Dave Jones (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169014#c2): | I've already explained this several times already. | The only way this is going into the fedora kernel is via upstream. | If users start manipulating their DSDTs, and getting panics etc, they file bugs | here, and would 'neglect' to say how they hacked their dsdt's | It's a support nightmare waiting to happen. So there you go. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
