Re: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table

[Shaohua Li]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:21 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> In 2.6.12-rc4, I added acpi=off to the kernel command line and it 
> panic-ed in acpi_get_firmware_table, called from the IPMI driver.
> 
> The attached patch fixes the problem, but it still spits out ugly 
> "ACPI-0166: *** Error: Invalid address flags 8" errors.  So I doubt the 
> patch is right, but maybe it points to something else.
> 
> Is it legal to call acpi_get_firmware_table if acpi is off?  If not, how 
> can I tell that acpi is off?
Please check 'acpi_disabled' variable.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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