[PATCH 01/19] ARM64 / ACPI: Get RSDP and ACPI boot-time tables

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2014年07月29日 21:50, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>
> On 29/07/14 14:08, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2014-7-29 2:29, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> +
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * We never plan to use RSDT on arm/arm64 as its deprecated in spec but this
>>>> + * variable is still required by the ACPI core
>>>> + */
>>>> +u32 acpi_rsdt_forced;
>>>
>>> This looks like yet another stray variable not used anywhere including
>>> core ACPI
>>
>> It will be used by ACPICA to get the RSDP in acpi_tb_parse_root_table()
>> in tbutils.c.
>>
>
> No I couldn't find it in mainline/acpica/linux-next(pm tree).
>
> On further digging found that commit fab461058385("ACPICA: Cleanup the
> option of forcing the use of the RSDT") has renamed it to
> acpi_gbl_do_not_use_xsdt and moved it into acpica with default false.
> So you can remove this.

Ah, my bad. I grepped it in another version of kernel and found the outdated
result, I will update this patch.

Thanks
Hanjun