From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Conrad Kostecki <ck@conrad-kostecki.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:18:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FE8817.4000504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402142140430.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-14 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-14 10:23 [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:06 ` AW: " Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:13 ` AW: " Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 19:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 19:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 19:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 21:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-02-14 21:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 16:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 18:23 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 18:23 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 18:47 ` AW: AW: " H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 19:25 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 19:25 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 19:40 ` AW: AW: " H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-18 18:22 ` ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: Provide support for ACPI table adding via OS Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-18 18:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:44 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-19 11:22 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-19 11:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-21 7:24 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 7:24 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 7:28 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 7:28 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPICA: Introduce new acpi_os_physical_table_add OS callback Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPICA: Add BGRT signature to known signatures Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI: Add new table signatures that can be overridden/added Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [Devel] " Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:38 ` [Devel] ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding Moore, Robert
2014-02-18 18:38 ` Moore, Robert
2014-02-18 18:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 19:59 ` Moore, Robert
2014-02-18 19:59 ` Moore, Robert
2014-02-19 11:14 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-19 11:14 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-19 13:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:28 ` AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 Conrad Kostecki
2014-09-09 13:56 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2014-09-09 14:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-09 15:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-12 9:41 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2014-09-12 10:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-12 11:06 ` [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for e6xx based systems Eric Sesterhenn
2014-09-16 0:58 ` [tip:x86/platform] " tip-bot for Peter Neubauer
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