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    SubjectRe: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

    > 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.

    I'm aware of that and I tried to hack around it but failed miserably
    due to lack of masochism. It was simpler to abuse the DT stuff to get
    things done. :)

    Thanks,

    tglx




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