Re: strange stuff in arch/i386/kernel/head.S

Philip Gladstone (philip@raptor.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:46:23 -0500

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My ASUS P2B motherboard has the RSDT, FACP and DSDT. In fact I've
spent the afternoon writing an AML to ASL converter to decode
the junk that appears in the DSDT. This stuff is *truly* ghastly.

Philip

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > (I also have to understand why my ASUS TX97-XE, which is claimed to be
> > ACPI compliant, reports no AddressRangeACPI, has no "RSD PTR " table in
> > the first meg, has no FACP nowhere. I just looove this.)
>
> Because ASUS appear to thin ACPI compliant means "we might one year get
> around to releasing a BIOS that uses the hardware ACPI festures". ASUS
> _used_ to be a good motherboard maker, they seem to have gone downhill very
> fast.
>
> Alan
>
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