Johan Vromans wrote: > Berthold Cogel <cogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Johan Vromans wrote: >>> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129330 >> Thanks! I've overlooked the patches at Sourceforge. >> Is there any chance to get the patch into the kernel somehow? > > There are two patches required. One patch is to allow a > custom-supplied DSDT in initrd. This is a harmless patch that would be > very nice to have in the kernel, and the feature could even be enabled > by default[1]. Several distro's already do this. I would appreciate this. I'm using this patch for my kernels. But there seems to be a problem with the latest ACPI patches with at least kernel 2.6.16.9, which I tried yesterday. linux-2.6.16.9 acpi-release-20060310-2.6.16.diff acpi-dsdt-initrd-v0.8.1-2.6.16.patch make bzImage .... LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_find_dsdt_initrd': (.text+0x2526d): undefined reference to `ACPI_MEM_ALLOCATE' drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_find_dsdt_initrd': (.text+0x252c8): undefined reference to `ACPI_MEM_FREE' drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_tb_get_table_body': (.text+0x3772e): undefined reference to `ACPI_MEM_FREE' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Fehler 1 Building the kernel with the ACPI patches or with the initrd patch works. But the combination ..... Seems that something has been changed in the ACPI patches. > But the best solution would be to have a kernel module that deals with > this kind of smart batttery subsystems, and provide the correct > information for userland (hal?) to react upon. This is basically the > original approach taken by Pedro Venda, Bruno Ducrot and completed for > 2.6.10 (or so) by Rich Townsend[2]. Unfortunately, recent changes to This was what I used in the first time with kernel 2.6.11 when I got my notebook. > the i2c drivers conflict with the changes required for this approach, > and I haven't been able to find out how to modify the patches for the > 2.6.16 kernel. (Help appreciated.) I haven't been much of a software developer myself and my C is rusty. I read LKML just out of curiosity. But I'm willing to do the testing part. Berthold - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
