[LinuxBIOS] ACPI DSDT tables for mainboards

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 21:23:12 CET 2007


On Dec 28, 2007 9:59 PM, Phani Babu Giddi <phanig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> It appears that the DSDT tables and the related ASL files are present for
> few boareds in Linux BIOS. If so how are other boards expected to provide
> the required DSDT table. Does it has to be taken care either by the kernel
> or intiramfs ? Is Linux BIOS ACPI 3.0 compatible ?
>
> The reason I am looking at this is for supporting PCIe hotplug which looks
> for _OSC method. This has been specified in ACPI 3.0 spec.

which MB or chipset?

for MCP55, you may need to modify DSDT in seregenti_cheetah/8132/8111.
you may need access to nvidia mcp55 NDA doc.

you may not look at your MB current DSDT in Normal BIOS. that dsdt is
belonging to IBV ( Phoenix or AMI) instead of MB vendor.

YH




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