From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"ck@conrad-kostecki.de" <ck@conrad-kostecki.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>
Subject: Re: [Devel] ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:03:00 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402191356320.4468@ionos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2779111.V9OOdv2fEJ@skinner>
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 07:59:17 PM Moore, Robert wrote:
> > Maybe not exactly "running", but at the very least, ACPICA must be
> > initialized.
> >
> > All of this of course depends on how early the table needs to be loaded.
>
> I'd say as early as possible.
> Not sure about Thomas' use case.
The case is a BIOS with complete lack of ACPI tables. So we have no
data about IOAPIC, HPET and other stuff.
The current acpi_initrd_override() call is sufficient, because its
called before acpi_boot_table_init(), which is the first function
accessing any of the tables.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-19 13:02 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
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 [this message]
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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