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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:59:13 -0500
From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table
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Shaohua Li wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:21 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
>  
>
>>In 2.6.12-rc4, I added acpi=off to the kernel command line and it 
>>panic-ed in acpi_get_firmware_table, called from the IPMI driver.
>>
>>The attached patch fixes the problem, but it still spits out ugly 
>>"ACPI-0166: *** Error: Invalid address flags 8" errors.  So I doubt the 
>>patch is right, but maybe it points to something else.
>>
>>Is it legal to call acpi_get_firmware_table if acpi is off?  If not, how 
>>can I tell that acpi is off?
>>    
>>
>Please check 'acpi_disabled' variable.
>  
>
acpi_disabled is not available on ia64.  It doesn't seem to be a 
standard interface.  So that's not an option.

-Corey
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