Has there any investigation into how windows handles this? >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Renninger [mailto:trenn@xxxxxxx] >Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:10 AM >To: linux-acpi; Len Brown >Cc: Zhao, Yakui; me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Moore, Robert; Starikovskiy, Alexey >Y >Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ACPICA: Add acpi_gbl_force_rsdt variable > >I expect separate patches should now be patched against >acpica when possible? > >Does this also make sense with patches which have dependencies >to other patches for the Linux kernel? In this case there is not a >"does not compile" dependency, but at least they belong together. > >I wonder what works out for acpica and Linux kernel maintainers best, >please advise. > > >---- > >ACPICA: Add acpi_gbl_force_rsdt variable > >Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> >Tested-by: Mark Doughty <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >--- > drivers/acpi/tables/tbutils.c | 3 ++- > drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c | 1 + > include/acpi/acglobal.h | 1 + > 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > >Index: linux-acpi- >2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c >=================================================================== >--- linux-acpi- >2.6_video_native_vs_vendor.orig/drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c >+++ linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c >@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ u8 acpi_gbl_method_executing = FALSE; > /* System flags */ > > u32 acpi_gbl_startup_flags = 0; >+int acpi_gbl_force_rsdt = 0; > > /* System starts uninitialized */ > >Index: linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/include/acpi/acglobal.h >=================================================================== >--- linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor.orig/include/acpi/acglobal.h >+++ linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/include/acpi/acglobal.h >@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_system_awake_and > > extern u8 acpi_gbl_shutdown; > extern u32 acpi_gbl_startup_flags; >+extern int acpi_gbl_force_rsdt; > extern const char *acpi_gbl_sleep_state_names[ACPI_S_STATE_COUNT]; > extern const char *acpi_gbl_highest_dstate_names[4]; > extern const struct acpi_opcode_info >acpi_gbl_aml_op_info[AML_NUM_OPCODES]; >Index: linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/drivers/acpi/tables/tbutils.c >=================================================================== >--- linux-acpi- >2.6_video_native_vs_vendor.orig/drivers/acpi/tables/tbutils.c >+++ linux-acpi-2.6_video_native_vs_vendor/drivers/acpi/tables/tbutils.c >@@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ acpi_tb_parse_root_table(acpi_physical_a > > /* Differentiate between RSDT and XSDT root tables */ > >- if (rsdp->revision > 1 && rsdp->xsdt_physical_address) { >+ if (rsdp->revision > 1 && rsdp->xsdt_physical_address >+ && !acpi_gbl_force_rsdt) { > /* > * Root table is an XSDT (64-bit physical addresses). We must >use the > * XSDT if the revision is > 1 and the XSDT pointer is present, >as per > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
