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SubjectRe: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table
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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:59 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Shaohua Li wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:21 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In 2.6.12-rc4, I added acpi=off to the kernel command line and it
> >>panic-ed in acpi_get_firmware_table, called from the IPMI driver.
> >>
> >>The attached patch fixes the problem, but it still spits out ugly
> >>"ACPI-0166: *** Error: Invalid address flags 8" errors. So I doubt the
> >>patch is right, but maybe it points to something else.
> >>
> >>Is it legal to call acpi_get_firmware_table if acpi is off? If not, how
> >>can I tell that acpi is off?
> >>
> >>
> >Please check 'acpi_disabled' variable.
> >
> >
> acpi_disabled is not available on ia64. It doesn't seem to be a
> standard interface. So that's not an option.
It always return 0 in IA64. IA64 can't disable ACPI.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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