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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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

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