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Re: Dom0: ACPI panic



On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:51:03AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> 
> AcpiTbGetTableHeader() reads the ACPI Header from the BIOS
> which contains the wrong Header->Length value.
> => buggy BIOS
> 
> The attached patch adds a sanity check. I don't know, if AE_LIMIT is the
> correct error code, but NetBSD/Xen now boots on this machine.

I don't see how the test can succeed in the normal case.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
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