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/ia64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
index 897e208..63d6dcd 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
@@ -69,6 +69,20 @@
unsigned long acpi_wakeup_address = 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC
+static unsigned long __init acpi_find_rsdp(void)
+{
+ unsigned long rsdp_phys = 0;
+
+ if (efi.acpi20 != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
+ rsdp_phys = efi.acpi20;
+ else if (efi.acpi != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX
+ "v1.0/r0.71 tables no longer supported\n");
+ return rsdp_phys;
+}
+#endif
+
const char __init *
acpi_get_sysname(void)
{
@@ -631,18 +645,6 @@
return 0;
}
-unsigned long __init acpi_find_rsdp(void)
-{
- unsigned long rsdp_phys = 0;
-
- if (efi.acpi20 != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
- rsdp_phys = efi.acpi20;
- else if (efi.acpi != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
- printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX
- "v1.0/r0.71 tables no longer supported\n");
- return rsdp_phys;
-}
-
int __init acpi_boot_init(void)
{