Re: Endless ACPI errors on Linus tree (5b664cb235)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 04:44:15 EST


> That would basically mean there's no way to use the v2 fields here - all
> the code could do is report the inconsitency, but it would have to use
> the v1 field in any case. That's really a shame, and as before I'm
> somewhat hesitant to do so. The only way I could easily find myself
> doing this would be to introduce a command line option controlling the
> behavior here, but that would need to be done outside of the ACPICA
> code I'd assume.
>
> Andi, Bob, Len?

I think we should only use v1 FADT fields for now and ignore v2.

-Andi
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