Re: ACPI: RSDP - ERROR: Invalid checksum

Klaus Muth
2005-06-28T07:24:58Z

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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