From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt" Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:59:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20081031184233.8588.42241.stgit@thinkpad> <1229504118.3991.63.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <200901091154.43606.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:46672 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752479AbZAIK7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:59:32 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([96.237.168.40]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0KD7000YCAJ6Q6ID@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:59:31 -0600 (CST) In-reply-to: <200901091154.43606.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Zhao Yakui , "Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , me@markdoughty.co.uk, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that > > > RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well. > > Great, now we still need a dmi blacklist with machines which are known > broken. Then we are at the patchset I posted about a year ago -> scnr. > > I am going to post the missing two patches to make R40e and R50e work. please do not. this option is just for manual debugging. as i wrote when i nacked your original series, the object should be to figure out which path to take w/o using dmi. thanks, -Len