Re: Using a custom DSDT with Fedora

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:31 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:35 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 08 October 2006 at 23:16, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > So, is there any good reason this feature isn't available on the Fedora
> > > > kernel? Thanks.
> 
> > > There is. Read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161892#c23
> > > and other comments.
> > > 
> > > Please file your problem as a kernel bug and wait for it to be fixed.
> 
> > Please read my blog entry. The ACPI interpreter isn't broken, the BIOS
> > just doesn't read from the hardware like it should.
> 
> Then the BIOS is broken, complain to the BIOS vendor?

this is a good place to plug the bios<->linux test tool that Intel
recently released:

http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org

The aim is to make it real easy for bios folks to test with linux, but
normal users can use it too, say for evaluating what to buy etc.