From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:59:17 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402142030240.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FE6DEF.1050607@zytor.com>
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/14/2014 11:15 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I'm fine with ACPI tables if we can provide simple means for embedded
> > users to load one via grub or just attach it to the kernel image.
>
> That already exists, see Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt.
That requires, that you have already ACPI tables.
ACPI_SIG_RSDP cannot be overridden and that's the base table you need
to get ACPI going in the first place. So we need support for that and
probably for storing the tables at some non canonical place.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-14 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ 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 [this message]
2014-02-14 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 21:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
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 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 19:25 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 19:40 ` 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 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: Provide support for ACPI table adding via OS Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-18 18:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-19 11:22 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-21 7:24 ` [Devel] " 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 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPICA: Add BGRT signature to known signatures 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 18:38 ` [Devel] ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding Moore, Robert
2014-02-18 18:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 19:59 ` Moore, Robert
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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