RE: ACPI: RSDP - ERROR: Invalid checksum

Moore, Robert
2005-06-28T15:19:41Z

Does this work under windows?
Please post a memory dump of the area in question, I would be very
interested to see it.
Bob

> -----Original Message-----
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> admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Klaus Muth
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> To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [ACPI] ACPI: RSDP - ERROR: Invalid checksum
>
> Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 11:13 schrieb Klaus Muth:
>
> > It seems to happen, that the IBM BIOS contains just the string "RSD
PTR
> "
> > exactly at a 16-Byte-Boundary before the real RSDP block, so the
wrnog
> > address is returned and acpi_table_init() in drivers/acpi/tables.c
fails
> to
> > checksum this block of course.
> [... 2.4 kernel finding the real RSDP ...]
> > Is there any patch to do the same with a vanilla 2.6 Kernel?
>
> Ahem. Did I hit a FAQ? If so: I could not find the answer. Could just
> someone
> be so kind to point me in the right direction?
>
> TIA
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