Re: acpi=off and acpi_get_firmware_table

[Corey Minyard]

Shaohua Li wrote:

> 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.
>  
acpi_disabled is not available on ia64.  It doesn't seem to be a 
standard interface.  So that's not an option.

-Corey
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