[PATCH v3 05/62] acpi: Don't do traditional BIOS table scan for ARM64
Stefano Stabellini
stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Mon Nov 23 03:24:49 PST 2015
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, shannon.zhao at linaro.org wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
>
> With the addition of ARM64 that does not have a traditional BIOS to
> scan, add a #ifdef option for x86 to do the traditional BIOS scanning
> for tables.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
> ---
> xen/drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/xen/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/xen/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> index ce15470..db74a90 100644
> --- a/xen/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> +++ b/xen/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ acpi_physical_address __init acpi_os_get_root_pointer(void)
> } else {
> acpi_physical_address pa = 0;
>
> + #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> acpi_find_root_pointer(&pa);
> + #endif
> return pa;
> }
I think it might be best to error out earlier if acpi and !efi_enabled
on arm and arm64. If we do that we'll never enter this "else".
If acpi_find_root_pointer doesn't build on arm, we should move it to an
x86 specific location, such as xen/arch/x86/efi.
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