On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:31:02PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > > 
> > > There is one issue:  disabling the acpi device through boot -c doesn't
> > > entirely skip ACPI processing.  acpi_probe() is still called, which does
> > > execute AML code (going through all the _INI methods).  As a consequence,
> > > mpacpi_scan_apics() might be called too.
> > 
> > Is this an issue if we disable ioapic too via boot -c ?
> 
> Not for mpacpi_scan_apics (although cpu devices will be attached
> according to the MADT).
> 
> But initialising all ACPI objects might be an issue.

Hum. Is there a way to detect if acpi has been disabled via boot -c ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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