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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:59:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4282C681.6030908@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115866445.8814.1.camel@linux-hp.sh.intel.com>

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.

-Corey

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-12  2:59 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 [this message]
2005-05-12  3:07     ` Shaohua Li

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