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

H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17T18:50:37Z

On 02/17/2014 10:23 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
>
> Easiest I can think of instead of trying to modify RSDP or similar, is
> to still pass the tables via unzipped, glued cpio which the kernel
> can access early. The same way it is done for current ACPI table overriding
> and early microcode passing.
>

We shouldn't *need* an RSDP and RSDT/XSDT, though, since all they are
are pointers to the actual tables. Rather than hacking around it we
should probably just fix the fundamental problem.

-hpa