Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501

H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14T21:18:46Z

On 02/14/2014 01:16 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> Well, the RSDP and RSDT/XSDT are nothing but pointers to other tables,
>> so if explicitly overridden I'm not sure if one actually would need
>> them. That doesn't mean our current code will work without them, though.
>
> I tried once to overload all of the tables, but failed miserably in
> the ACPI dungeon. RSDP was the major pain point IIRC.
>

I suspect we need to handle the RSDP and RSDT/XSDT specially, since,
again, they are really just pointers to where to find the other tables.
They are part of the discovery, not the data.

-hpa