Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:47:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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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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