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Message-ID: <4F15B1EA.4060405@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:37:46 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> CC: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pjones@...hat.com Subject: Re: Re-add ibft tree to linux-next please On 01/17/2012 08:49 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> >> Are there really hardware/firmware configurations that support IBFT >> and do not support ACPI? > > gPXE can be used in legacy environments. And it (gPXE) does not update > the ACPI tables. > That's irrelevant. THe point is that iBFT *is* an ACPI table. > I think that would work. And also if 'acpi_disabled=0' as you might > have an IBFT table in memory that is _not_ hooked up to the ACPI tables. That is *always* the case, the "finder" is nonstandard (because the ACPI tables are largely non-extensible, says the one who has tried to actually extend ACPI tables in memory.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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