[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> [060710 16:44]:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:41 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Reflashing BIOS's is to be avoided.
> > 
> > Unless space is a serious problem, I'd just as soon see the table
> > present as it would be on "standard" BIOS's. 
> 
> I wouldn't imagine that they'd reflash the BIOS. Just ship the DSDT or
> whatever other weird crap they need separately, and load it for
> themselves instead of from the BIOS.

Frankly, for booting Windows this is probably as good as not providing
a DSDT at all, as the Microsoft OSes don't provide a decent way of
attaching the DSDT to their initrd ;)=


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