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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7


On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:

>
> make mptable to be consistent to acpi routing, so we could
> 1. kexec kernel with acpi=off
> 2. workaround BIOS that acpi routing is working, but mptable is not right.
> so can use kernel/kexec to start other os that doesn't have good acpi support

Is this an effort to boot an ACPI-mode kernel,
and then kexec a non-ACPI kernel?

Doing so could confuse the heck out of the platform firmware,
which will think that an ACPI-mode kernel is still running.

Note that it is a historic artifact, now considered a bug,
that ACPI uses the MPS code. We should be divorcing these
two bodies of code rather than mixing them further.

-Len


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