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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-15 14:53:32 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-15 14:58:04 -0400
commit9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47 (patch)
treec4f041b0f7fa28db46841336135d493d587435ea /Documentation/acpi
parentce636452343af0522d2666157dab9c2096f4f996 (diff)
ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD option
This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437 ("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply isn't ready. It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this shouldn't be done at all. For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this concept later if necessary. Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/acpi')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt12
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/acpi/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh43
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt b/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt
index 5008f256a2db..febbb1ba4d23 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
1Linux supports two methods of overriding the BIOS DSDT: 1Linux supports a method of overriding the BIOS DSDT:
2 2
3CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT builds the image into the kernel. 3CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT builds the image into the kernel.
4 4
5CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD adds the image to the initrd. 5When to use this method is described in detail on the
6
7When to use these methods is described in detail on the
8Linux/ACPI home page: 6Linux/ACPI home page:
9http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php 7http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php
10
11Note that if both options are used, the DSDT supplied
12by the INITRD method takes precedence.
13
14Documentation/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh is provided for convenience
15for use with the CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD method.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh b/Documentation/acpi/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 17ef6e838e14..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/acpi/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
1#!/bin/bash
2# Adds a DSDT file to the initrd (if it's an initramfs)
3# first argument is the name of archive
4# second argument is the name of the file to add
5# The file will be copied as /DSDT.aml
6
7# 20060126: fix "Premature end of file" with some old cpio (Roland Robic)
8# 20060205: this time it should really work
9
10# check the arguments
11if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
12 program_name=$(basename $0)
13 echo "\
14$program_name: too few arguments
15Usage: $program_name initrd-name.img DSDT-to-add.aml
16Adds a DSDT file to an initrd (in initramfs format)
17
18 initrd-name.img: filename of the initrd in initramfs format
19 DSDT-to-add.aml: filename of the DSDT file to add
20 " 1>&2
21 exit 1
22fi
23
24# we should check it's an initramfs
25
26tempcpio=$(mktemp -d)
27# cleanup on exit, hangup, interrupt, quit, termination
28trap 'rm -rf $tempcpio' 0 1 2 3 15
29
30# extract the archive
31gunzip -c "$1" > "$tempcpio"/initramfs.cpio || exit 1
32
33# copy the DSDT file at the root of the directory so that we can call it "/DSDT.aml"
34cp -f "$2" "$tempcpio"/DSDT.aml
35
36# add the file
37cd "$tempcpio"
38(echo DSDT.aml | cpio --quiet -H newc -o -A -O "$tempcpio"/initramfs.cpio) || exit 1
39cd "$OLDPWD"
40
41# re-compress the archive
42gzip -c "$tempcpio"/initramfs.cpio > "$1"
43