hi there
I am very interested in patches for custom DSDT support (I own
an ASUS notebook which has a broken DSDT, so ACPI suspend does not work;
and there is a fixed DSDT in acpi.sf.net that I would love to try);
I hope that they would accepted in Debian's shipped kernel
(see bug 251023).
So I want to point a very important fact: the command /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
in Debian Sarge already supports those patches: at the end it
sports the lines
if [ -e /etc/mkinitrd/DSDT ]; then
echo -n "INITRDDSDT123DSDT123" >>${initrd_file}
cat /etc/mkinitrd/DSDT >>${initrd_file}
fi
so the Debian user would just need to put the fixed DSDT in
/etc/mkinitrd/DSDT and it would be included in mkinitrd, and ....
(as soon as the patch is accepted in default Debian kernels)....
it would be loaded at startup: easy and clean.
I guess that for the above mkinitrd snippet , we would need the patch
http://gaugusch.at/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patches/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patch-v0.7d-2.6.9.patch
(for kernel >= 2.6.9 ) and the patch
http://gaugusch.at/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patches/acpi-dsdt-initramfs-fix-2.6.10-cleanup.patch
(for kernel == 2.6.10 )
Unfortunately this last patch fails on the standard kernel in Sarge, that is
2.6.8 ... I will need to look into it ..
a.
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Andrea Mennucc
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