Re: [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: Provide support for ACPI table adding via OS

Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18T18:44:32Z

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:27:23 AM H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Why can't you add SSDTs? It would be particularly useful.

There are 2 ways how ACPI tables get added:
- Via pointer from a root table (XSDT or RSDT iirc)
- Via load statement inside of ACPI context when ACPI BIOS
code gets executed (iirc the physical address is passed).

The latter is only for SSDTs.
The problem is that you if you add an SSDT early, it might
have been intended for overriding when an SSDT gets dynamically
loaded later when the system is up which is particular useful as
well if you want to debug this specific BIOS table.

This could be workarounded via a boot param:
acpi=allow_ssdt_adding
But this is not nice. Maybe someone has a more elegant idea.
Something could still be added if someone is really needing this.

Thomas