On 12/20/2013 01:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > My understanding, however, is that to use the TAD, we don't actually need to > create a struct acpi_device for it. We just need a handle to the ACPICA > object which can be found using acpi_get_devices() as soon as the namespace > has been extracted from the DSDT and friends. That in turn happens in > acpi_early_init(), which is called from start_kernel() right before > efi_late_init(). > > Is that early enough? > Possibly... will have to investigate. I would also ask if the same applies to the PNP0B0x devices -- all we really need there is the presence/absence indication and the I/O port base. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html