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author | Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> | 2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-04-20 10:43:16 -0400 |
commit | aa2110cb1a7510f9b834adfb39b05d4843a35d35 (patch) | |
tree | 0dda563bb8a8251fb6f6b878f16598a3901f992f /arch | |
parent | 43323cb4c4b619414913f54fef9d492aabadd033 (diff) | |
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ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT
Some BIOS on Toshiba machines corrupt the DSDT, so add a new
boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to workaround it.
Add warning message to ask users to use this option if corrupt DSDT detected.
Also build a DMI blacklist to check it and automatically copy DSDT.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c index cd40aba6aa95..b9629384263c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c @@ -1576,6 +1576,10 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg) /* "acpi=noirq" disables ACPI interrupt routing */ else if (strcmp(arg, "noirq") == 0) { acpi_noirq_set(); + } + /* "acpi=copy_dsdt" copys DSDT */ + else if (strcmp(arg, "copy_dsdt") == 0) { + acpi_gbl_copy_dsdt_locally = 1; } else { /* Core will printk when we return error. */ return -EINVAL; |