Re: [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME)

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On Sun, 12 Jan, at 11:05:46AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan, at 01:30:23AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 21, 2013 12:21:48 PM Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Dec, at 11:18:56PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure 100%, but I *think* we need to do that with interrupts enabled.
> > > > At least after mm_init(), because it relies on things initialized there if I
> > > > remember correctly.
> > > > 
> > > > From what I can tell at the moment, it might be possible to move it before
> > > > efi_enter_virtual_mode() if that would help.
> > > 
> > > Actually yeah, that would be super useful, and I think we'd be able to
> > > get rid of the whole efi_late_init() stuff because we'd no longer need
> > > to hang on to the EFI_BOOT_SERVICES* regions after
> > > SetVirtualAddressMap().
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > I don't see any adverse effects of the patch below on a couple of my test
> > boxes, but (a) they are Intel-based and (b) they are non-EFI, so it would be
> > good to give it a go on as many machines as reasonably possible.
> 
> Thanks Rafael, I'll give this a spin on my test machines here.

(Sorry for replying so late)

As various other people have reported, this works fine.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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