Re: Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)

2006-12-02 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sat 2006-12-02 18:34:59, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and > > > then load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even > > > battery can't be monitored

Re: Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)

2006-12-02 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and > > then load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even > > battery can't be monitored on sych notebooks) > > Merge smart battery support, instead of ha

Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)

2006-12-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ? > > > > > > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"? > > > > Agreed. > > So how else can it be done? > > > > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling > > > their own kernels. > > > > Legal rights to