From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261659AbUAMHis (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:38:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261812AbUAMHis (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:38:48 -0500 Received: from fmr06.intel.com ([134.134.136.7]:28378 "EHLO caduceus.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261659AbUAMHip convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:38:45 -0500 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Subject: RE: [ACPI] [PATCH] 2.4/2.6 use xdsdt to print table header Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:38:38 +0800 Message-ID: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8401720CC2@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ACPI] [PATCH] 2.4/2.6 use xdsdt to print table header Thread-Index: AcPZbNrV/Un7Bar0SNWvSnREthg+6gANNHPg From: "Yu, Luming" To: "Alex Williamson" , , Cc: "Brown, Len" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2004 07:38:39.0465 (UTC) FILETIME=[42C81D90:01C3D9A8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm resending this patch to get it into the main ACPI source. This > fixes a problem where the DSDT pointer in the FADT is NULL because it > uses the 64bit XDSDT instead. The current code is happy to map a NULL > address and return success to the caller. This can crash the > system or > printout garbage headers to the console. It's a simple > matter to check > table revision and use the XDSDT in favor of the DSDT. This has been > living happily in both the 2.4 and 2.6 ia64 tree for some > time. Please > accept. Thanks, I just checked with http://lia64.bkbits.net:8080/linux-ia64-2.4 . The patch has been merged. Please take a look at http://lia64.bkbits.net:8080/linux-ia64-2.4/diffs/drivers/acpi/tables.c@ 1.11.1.1?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/acpi|hist/drivers/ acpi/tables.c and http://lia64.bkbits.net:8080/linux-ia64-2.4/diffs/drivers/acpi/tables.c@ 1.11.1.2?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/acpi|hist/drivers/ acpi/tables.c