Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754101AbaBQSuh (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:50:37 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60649 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752815AbaBQSug (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:50:36 -0500 Message-ID: <53025956.40505@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:47:50 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Renninger CC: Thomas Gleixner , Conrad Kostecki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , devel@acpica.org Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 References: <4729ad4b8d3342c1b0e29fefe4b04d6a@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <3121313.GKMnFpiL5h@skinner> <09d1230f-a261-4858-a390-72df138aaa34@email.android.com> <1678556.oPQNyVF84j@skinner> In-Reply-To: <1678556.oPQNyVF84j@skinner> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/17/2014 10:23 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Easiest I can think of instead of trying to modify RSDP or similar, is > to still pass the tables via unzipped, glued cpio which the kernel > can access early. The same way it is done for current ACPI table overriding > and early microcode passing. > We shouldn't *need* an RSDP and RSDT/XSDT, though, since all they are are pointers to the actual tables. Rather than hacking around it we should probably just fix the fundamental problem. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/