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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/