tree c80842ec069ed62f4f352a575a35829b1aee1ab6
parent 53aac44c904abbad9f474f652f099de13b5c3563
author Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> 1349043835 +0200
committer H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 1349053409 -0700

ACPI: Implement physical address table override

Previous patches stored ACPI tables provided via initrd in a memblock reserved
area.
If a table is loaded and the table type of an initrd provided one matches,
the one from initrd is prefered.
In case of a SSDT table, the OEM table id also has to match.

ACPI tables can be loaded at boot time (static table pointers in XSDT),
but also dynamically any time later via ASL commands load() or loadTable().
The override mechanism always works.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349043837-22659-5-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>