Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:47:50 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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On 02/17/2014 10:23 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Easiest I can think of instead of trying to modify RSDP or similar, is > to still pass the tables via unzipped, glued cpio which the kernel > can access early. The same way it is done for current ACPI table overriding > and early microcode passing. >
We shouldn't *need* an RSDP and RSDT/XSDT, though, since all they are are pointers to the actual tables. Rather than hacking around it we should probably just fix the fundamental problem.
-hpa
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