Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4/2.6 use xdsdt to print table header
From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
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       ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Accepted.

Thanks Alex,
-Len

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:32, Alex Williamson wrote:
>    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,
> 
> 	Alex

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