Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:43:38 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME |
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On 12/20/2013 01:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > My understanding, however, is that to use the TAD, we don't actually need to > create a struct acpi_device for it. We just need a handle to the ACPICA > object which can be found using acpi_get_devices() as soon as the namespace > has been extracted from the DSDT and friends. That in turn happens in > acpi_early_init(), which is called from start_kernel() right before > efi_late_init(). > > Is that early enough? >
Possibly... will have to investigate. I would also ask if the same applies to the PNP0B0x devices -- all we really need there is the presence/absence indication and the I/O port base.
-hpa
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