Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:18:15 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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On 02/14/2014 01:16 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >> Well, the RSDP and RSDT/XSDT are nothing but pointers to other tables, >> so if explicitly overridden I'm not sure if one actually would need >> them. That doesn't mean our current code will work without them, though. > > I tried once to overload all of the tables, but failed miserably in > the ACPI dungeon. RSDP was the major pain point IIRC. >
I suspect we need to handle the RSDP and RSDT/XSDT specially, since, again, they are really just pointers to where to find the other tables. They are part of the discovery, not the data.
-hpa
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