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From: Klaus Muth <muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: ACPI: RSDP - ERROR: Invalid checksum
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:24:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506280925.00165.muth@hagos.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506091113.14327.muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>

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
-- 
Klaus Muth
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-07 13:46 ACPI: RSDP - ERROR: Invalid checksum Klaus Muth
     [not found] ` <200506071546.57120.muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>
2005-06-08 13:29   ` Klaus Muth
     [not found]     ` <200506081529.49355.muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>
2005-06-09  9:13       ` Klaus Muth
     [not found]         ` <200506091113.14327.muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>
2005-06-28  7:24           ` Klaus Muth [this message]
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2005-06-28 15:19 Moore, Robert
     [not found] ` <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E01F2DB9A-sBd4vmA9Se5Qxe9IK+vIArfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2005-06-29  7:30   ` Klaus Muth
     [not found]     ` <200506290930.05338.muth-5lHx5lHeYlQ@public.gmane.org>
2005-06-29  8:42       ` Klaus Muth
2005-06-29 16:05 Moore, Robert
2005-07-01 20:51 Moore, Robert
     [not found] ` <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E01FDC975-sBd4vmA9Se5Qxe9IK+vIArfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2005-07-01 22:06   ` Perry Hutchison

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