From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRBTL-0007hE-5g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:39:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRBTJ-0007g4-56 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:39:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRBTI-0007fz-W4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:39:25 -0400 Received: from [80.12.242.19] (helo=smtp-msa-out19.orange.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GRBXJ-0001Gg-E3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:43:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (AMontpellier-251-1-95-66.w86-206.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.206.233.66]) by mwinf1921.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EAF221C00096 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:39:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <451571ED.8060005@bellard.org> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:42:05 +0200 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Linux ACPI RSDT probe bug Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, While moving the PCI, MP Table and ACPI table initialisation code to the Bochs BIOS, I found that even recent Linux kernels do not scan the ACPI RSDT table at the right addresses in the Extended BIOS Data Area. Does anyone know why it was never fixed ? It is very disturbing for QEMU because I would prefer not to patch the BIOS ROM to initialize the ACPI RSDT table. Regards, Fabrice.