Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:10:26 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME |
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On 12/19/2013 09:38 PM, joeyli wrote: > > If don't use EFI time, then the first priority is using ACPI TAD if it > present. Due to ACPI TAD is a generic acpi device that's need OS parsing > DSDT table before set system time. > > Either move DSDT parser from subsystem initial stage to start_kernel or > move timekeeping initial to after DSDT be parsed. Which one you think is > more possible and risk less? Then I will try that way. >
I discussed the DSDT/SSDT parsing issue with Rafael and he claims it would require a lot of restructuring. Unfortunately ACPI is at this point done rather late, as I understand. All of this is a big problem.
-hpa
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