Bjorn Helgaas <> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 7:09 pm, Matt Tolentino wrote: >> This patch addresses a problem on x86 EFI systems with larger memory >> configurations. Up until now, we've relied on the fact that the >> ACPI RSDT would reside somewhere in low memory that could be >> permanently >> mapped in kernel address space - so __va() has been sufficient. >> However, >> on EFI systems, the RSDT is often anywhere in the lower 4GB of >> physical >> address space. So, we may need to remap it on x86 systems. > > The hunk below breaks HP rx7620, rx8620, and Superdome (all ia64) > systems. This is from 2.6.13-rc4-mm1, in
Ugh. Well, that's pretty ugly... Andrew, Len, please drop this one until I look at this closer. > acpi-fix-table-discovery-from-efi-for-x86.patch Thanks for testing Bjorn. matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
