linux/drivers/acpi/tables
Len Brown 239665a3bb ACPI: tables: complete searching upon RSDP w/ bad checksum.
ACPI tables follow a tree structure in memory.
The root of the tree is the RSDP (Root System Description Pointer).

To find the RSDP, the OS searches for the signature "RSD PTR "
in well known physical memory locations.  Then the OS computes
a table checksum to verify that the signature is really part
of a valid table header.

Some systems have a proper signature but an invalid checksum;
followed elsewhere by a proper signature with valid checksum.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9444

The Linux RSDP scanning code bailed out on those systems
and as a result they booted with ACPI disabled.

Fix this by deleting the Linux RSDP scanning code and
plugging in the ACPICA RSDP scanning code.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-12-14 02:36:24 -05:00
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Makefile ACPI: tables: complete searching upon RSDP w/ bad checksum. 2007-12-14 02:36:24 -05:00
tbfadt.c ACPICA: Clear reserved fields for incoming ACPI 1.0 FADTs 2007-07-03 01:56:40 -04:00
tbfind.c ACPICA: Update copyright to 2007. 2007-02-02 21:14:31 -05:00
tbinstal.c ACPICA: allow Load(OEMx) tables 2007-05-29 18:29:50 -04:00
tbutils.c ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning 2007-10-10 00:18:31 -04:00
tbxface.c ACPI: add "acpi_no_auto_ssdt" bootparam 2007-07-26 00:50:06 -04:00
tbxfroot.c ACPI: tables: complete searching upon RSDP w/ bad checksum. 2007-12-14 02:36:24 -05:00