[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[Eric W. Biederman]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> writes:

> 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.

The architecture with LinuxBIOS if you want that junk (and you don't
have room in your Nor Flash for it.  Is that you provide an ELF bootable
payload that provides int 0x13 and everything else you might need.

Eric