Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 07/18] x86, ACPI: Also initialize signature and length when parsing root table. | Date | Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:28:40 +0200 |
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On Monday, August 05, 2013 09:33:32 AM Tang Chen wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > On 08/02/2013 09:03 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, August 02, 2013 05:14:26 PM Tang Chen wrote: > >> Besides the phys addr of the acpi tables, it will be very convenient if > >> we also have the signature of each table in acpi_gbl_root_table_list at > >> early time. We can find SRAT easily by comparing the signature. > >> > >> This patch alse record signature and some other info in > >> acpi_gbl_root_table_list at early time. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen<tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> > >> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei<zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> > > > > The subject is misleading, as the change is in ACPICA and therefore affects not > > only x86. > > OK, will change it. > > > > > Also I think the same comments as for the other ACPICA patch is this series > > applies: You shouldn't modify acpi_tbl_parse_root_table() in ways that would > > require the other OSes using ACPICA to be modified. > > > > Thank you for the reminding. Please refer to the attachment. > How do you think of the idea from Zheng ?
It's doable and, quite frankly, if the ACPICA maintainers are happy, I'm fine with that too.
Thanks, Rafael
-- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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