Custom DSDT--The Debian Way?

[David Mandelberg]

David Goodenough wrote:
> Until recently building ones own kernel for a laptop was 
> almost required in order to get it to work properly, and
> actually one of the reasons for this was the ACPI support
> which seemed to take a while to get into the kernel.  But
> recently I have set up two laptops with Debian, and both
> of them are running stock kernels.  Yes on both of them
> I have had to add in some modules (the madwifi driver for
> Atheros wireless support), but that is done without modifying
> the base kernel.
I don't know about pre 2.4, but from what I remember it's been easy to get
GNU/Linux (i.e. bash, gcc, binutils, coreutils, linux, ...) to run on x86_32
laptops. The hard part was getting acpi, pcmia, wireless, and other things
commonly useful on laptops.


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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd at eth0.is-a-geek.org
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