[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64/acpi: panic when failed to init acpi table with acpi=force option

Levi Yun yeoreum.yun at arm.com
Mon Nov 25 09:59:31 PST 2024


Hi Ard.

>
> Calling panic() at this point does not achieve anything useful,
> though. Without ACPI tables or a DT, the only way to observe this
> panic message is by using earlycon= with an explicit MMIO address, and
> it might be better to limp on instead. Is there anything bad that
> might happen because of this, other than the user's wishes getting
> violated?

IMHO, the most weird thing is progressing boot with acpi table although
it failed to initailise. in this situation continuing to boot maybe
dead in unexepceted places. I think it would be better to prevent
futher progress by calling the panic() in this situation.




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