Re: [PATCH 1/1] - Altix: reinitialize acpi tables

2007-03-01 Thread John Keller
Len, The call itself does not fail. acpi_table_init() has no problem processing an empty DSDT. In fact, this is exactly what happens today when booting our non-acpi capable kernel. The second call is needed in the case of booting an acpi capable kernel. We need to rebuild the DSDT and SSDT, and be

Re: [PATCH 1/1] - Altix: reinitialize acpi tables

2007-02-28 Thread Len Brown
so will the 1st acpi_table_init() always fail -- even on future machines? -Len On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:47, John Keller wrote: > To provide compatibilty with SN kernels that do and do not > have ACPI IO support, the SN PROM must build different > versions of some ACPI tables based on whic