On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 03:34:08PM +0100, Oliver Steffen wrote:
> Make the BIOS linker optional in acpi_table_end().
> This makes it possible to call for example
> acpi_build_madt() from outside the ACPI table builder context.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <[email protected]>
> ---
> hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> index 2d5826a8f1..ed86867ae3 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> @@ -1748,8 +1748,11 @@ void acpi_table_end(BIOSLinker *linker, AcpiTable
> *desc)
> */
> memcpy(len_ptr, &table_len_le, sizeof table_len_le);
>
> - bios_linker_loader_add_checksum(linker, ACPI_BUILD_TABLE_FILE,
> - desc->table_offset, table_len, desc->table_offset + checksum_offset);
> + if (linker != NULL) {
> + bios_linker_loader_add_checksum(linker, ACPI_BUILD_TABLE_FILE,
> + desc->table_offset, table_len,
> + desc->table_offset +
> checksum_offset);
> + }
else {
// calculate + fill checksum directly
}
take care,
Gerd
