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| author | Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> | 2012-10-01 00:23:55 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-09-30 18:03:29 -0700 |
| commit | b2a35003dfbcc7b7a5e5c6e524e7d49ba66e0bb5 (patch) | |
| tree | c80842ec069ed62f4f352a575a35829b1aee1ab6 /usr | |
| parent | 53aac44c904abbad9f474f652f099de13b5c3563 (diff) | |
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ACPI: Implement physical address table override
Previous patches stored ACPI tables provided via initrd in a memblock reserved
area.
If a table is loaded and the table type of an initrd provided one matches,
the one from initrd is prefered.
In case of a SSDT table, the OEM table id also has to match.
ACPI tables can be loaded at boot time (static table pointers in XSDT),
but also dynamically any time later via ASL commands load() or loadTable().
The override mechanism always works.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349043837-22659-5-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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