| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <53C70F78.40206@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:49:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI: ARM64 does not have a BIOS add config for BIOS table scan. On 07/16/2014 04:46 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: >> + select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI > >> This shouldn't actually be set on IA64, should it? IA64 doesn't have >> BIOS, either, it has EFI/UEFI, like ARM64... > > Which ACPI tables are in the "LEGACY" category affected by this option? > That's not what this is about... it is about how you find the root pointer. On a BIOS system it is found by scanning low memory. On an EFI system it is found by querying EFI for a specific UUID. -hpa -- 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/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists