From: Len Brown Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:00:56 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc4~7^2^6~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e3a9d1ed8cc8db93e5c53e9a5b09065bd95de8b;p=pandora-kernel.git ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found When ACPI is disabled in the BIOS of this VIA C3 box, it invalidates the RSDP, which Linux notices: ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0218): A valid RSDP was not found [20080926] Bug Linux neglected to disable ACPI at that stage, and later scribbled on smp_found_config: ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS But this box doesn't run well in legacy PIC mode, it needed IOAPIC mode to perform correctly: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/39 So exit ACPI mode cleanly when we first detect that it is hopeless. Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Reading git-diff-tree failed