Idea to help notebook users

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:23:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:27:53AM -0300, Adilson Oliveira wrote:
> >> As I said, I don't know the legal implications that would have but would
> >> be an interesting and simple way to fix a lot of known problems.
> >> Let me know if it makes any sense or if I need to go to bed earlier  :)
> > 
> > There are some questions about whether modified DSDTs are redistributable.
> > It would depend on the terms under which the DSDT is licensed by the
> > copyright holder, and whether those terms are specific to you as the end
> > user.
> 
> This could be solved by providing a "patch" instead of distributing the
> whole DSDT, i.e:
> 1. Generate checksum of DSDT.
> 2. Look it up in database.
> 3. If patch is available, get current DSDT, patch it and save it for
> loading during boot.

That's a very interesting idea.  Matthew, what do you think?

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 - mdz