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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/srat_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/srat_32.c
index 2a8713e..b3b2c95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/srat_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/srat_32.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
int tables = 0;
int i = 0;
- rsdp_address = acpi_find_rsdp();
+ rsdp_address = acpi_os_get_root_pointer();
if (!rsdp_address) {
printk("%s: System description tables not found\n",
__FUNCTION__);