Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/acpitools/acpidump

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <200802131542.QAA0000015981%zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de@localhost>,
Matthias Drochner  <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> wrote:
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>joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost said:
>> > "acpidump: RSDT entry 6 is corrupt"
>> I get the same. Haven't looked at it, but the kernel complains about a
>> broken checksum as well during boot here. 
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>Ah yes, I see that in the kernel too. The table in question
>is "TCPA", and that leads to the explanation: I have that
>disabled in the BIOS setup. If I boot with TPM enabled, there
>is no kernel warning, and "acpidump" succeeds.
>Obviously, invalidation of the checksum is a common way to disable
>optional acpi tables. It doesn't seem to be incompatible with
>the ACPI spec at least.
>I'd suggest something like the appended patch.

Commit it.

christos