DSDT, What is it?

I am pretty much a Noob! I have sucessfully gotten Lion 10.7.2 Installed without a DSDT thank to magestrate.

However I found a DSDT for my board, well a .txt file for my board and I used the instructions given to compile it. The compiling for the .aml went smooth and easy. Then I used MB with UserDSDT, which was on my desktop, and it now fails to boot. Not a big deal, I can get it fixed.

I was wondering what a DSDT file is, and what is it for? I know that it has something to do with the BIOS, and hardware for a board. But what does it do? Do I really need it? Will it give me any advantage now or in the future? Does it enable Bluetooth? Just curious.

-> http://www.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/DSDT

Short answer: motherboard chipset drivers.

OldFred said:

Short answer: motherboard chipset drivers.

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*scnr*

Did you klick the link i gave above? Or that one? -> http://ihackintosh.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-is-kext-kernel-dsdt-smc-rtc-efi.html

Q. What is DSDT ?

Answer. DSDT is a part of ACPI. Actually DSDT tells OS how to interract with the hardware (simplified way of telling it). OSX has an incomplete ACPI implementation which supports only a subset of DSDT. By replacing DSDT we can declare essentially the same interface but in the way that OSX understands. This potentially can solve nearly any ACPI-related problem (except if OSX bypasses ACPI). Other usage case is emulating by the means of DSDT features or hardware components not present on your system. But this is limited to devices that use ACPI.

I'm wondering if anyone has cracked the issue between DSDTs and the Core i7 2600K issue?

what 2600k issue