Hi, Thomas > From: Devel [mailto:devel-boun...@acpica.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Renninger > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:44 AM > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:27:23 AM H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Why can't you add SSDTs? It would be particularly useful. > > There are 2 ways how ACPI tables get added: > - Via pointer from a root table (XSDT or RSDT iirc) > - Via load statement inside of ACPI context when ACPI BIOS > code gets executed (iirc the physical address is passed). > > The latter is only for SSDTs. > The problem is that you if you add an SSDT early, it might > have been intended for overriding when an SSDT gets dynamically > loaded later when the system is up which is particular useful as > well if you want to debug this specific BIOS table. > > This could be workarounded via a boot param: > acpi=allow_ssdt_adding > But this is not nice. Maybe someone has a more elegant idea. > Something could still be added if someone is really needing this.
I'm not sure if you are talking about the issue that: If a system booted using customized DSDT embedded with SSDT, it also requires dynamic SSDT loading be prevented in ACPICA. Thanks and best regards -Lv > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > de...@acpica.org > https://lists.acpica.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
