From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:07:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115867251.8859.0.camel@linux-hp.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4282C681.6030908@acm.org>
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:59 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Shaohua Li wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:21 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In 2.6.12-rc4, I added acpi=off to the kernel command line and it
> >>panic-ed in acpi_get_firmware_table, called from the IPMI driver.
> >>
> >>The attached patch fixes the problem, but it still spits out ugly
> >>"ACPI-0166: *** Error: Invalid address flags 8" errors. So I doubt the
> >>patch is right, but maybe it points to something else.
> >>
> >>Is it legal to call acpi_get_firmware_table if acpi is off? If not, how
> >>can I tell that acpi is off?
> >>
> >>
> >Please check 'acpi_disabled' variable.
> >
> >
> acpi_disabled is not available on ia64. It doesn't seem to be a
> standard interface. So that's not an option.
It always return 0 in IA64. IA64 can't disable ACPI.
Thanks,
Shaohua
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 17:21 acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table Corey Minyard
2005-05-12 2:54 ` Shaohua Li
2005-05-12 2:59 ` Corey Minyard
2005-05-12 3:07 ` Shaohua Li [this message]
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