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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c index 07bc7437f82b..1efb0940e8b2 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c @@ -387,6 +387,41 @@ void acpi_tb_check_dsdt_header(void) /******************************************************************************* * + * FUNCTION: acpi_tb_copy_dsdt + * + * PARAMETERS: table_desc - Installed table to copy + * + * RETURN: None + * + * DESCRIPTION: Implements a subsystem option to copy the DSDT to local memory. + * Some very bad BIOSs are known to either corrupt the DSDT or + * install a new, bad DSDT. This copy works around the problem. + * + ******************************************************************************/ + +void acpi_tb_copy_dsdt(struct acpi_table_desc *table_desc) +{ + struct acpi_table_header *new_table; + + new_table = ACPI_ALLOCATE(table_desc->length); + if (!new_table) { + ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, "Could not copy DSDT of length 0x%X", + table_desc->length)); + return; + } + + ACPI_MEMCPY(new_table, table_desc->pointer, table_desc->length); + acpi_tb_delete_table(table_desc); + table_desc->pointer = new_table; + table_desc->flags = ACPI_TABLE_ORIGIN_ALLOCATED; + + ACPI_INFO((AE_INFO, + "Forced DSDT copy: length 0x%05X copied locally, original unmapped", + new_table->length)); +} + +/******************************************************************************* + * * FUNCTION: acpi_tb_install_table * * PARAMETERS: Address - Physical address of DSDT or FACS |