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yaml
---
r: 128086
b: refs/heads/master
c: 237889b
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 13b40a1a065824d2d4e55c8b48ea9f3f9d162929
+refs/heads/master: 237889bf0a62f1399fb2ba0c2a259e6a96597131

trunk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
 			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
 				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
+			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
 
 			See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 

trunk/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_idle);
 void (*pm_power_off) (void);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off);
 
+u32 acpi_rsdt_forced;
 unsigned int acpi_cpei_override;
 unsigned int acpi_cpei_phys_cpuid;
 

trunk/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 #endif
 
 static int __initdata acpi_force = 0;
-
+u32 acpi_rsdt_forced;
 #ifdef	CONFIG_ACPI
 int acpi_disabled = 0;
 #else
@@ -1783,6 +1783,10 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg)
 			disable_acpi();
 		acpi_ht = 1;
 	}
+	/* acpi=rsdt use RSDT instead of XSDT */
+	else if (strcmp(arg, "rsdt") == 0) {
+		acpi_rsdt_forced = 1;
+	}
 	/* "acpi=noirq" disables ACPI interrupt routing */
 	else if (strcmp(arg, "noirq") == 0) {
 		acpi_noirq_set();

trunk/drivers/acpi/tables/tbutils.c

@@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ acpi_tb_parse_root_table(acpi_physical_address rsdp_address, u8 flags)
 
 	/* Differentiate between RSDT and XSDT root tables */
 
-	if (rsdp->revision > 1 && rsdp->xsdt_physical_address) {
+	if (rsdp->revision > 1 && rsdp->xsdt_physical_address
+			&& !acpi_rsdt_forced) {
 		/*
 		 * Root table is an XSDT (64-bit physical addresses). We must use the
 		 * XSDT if the revision is > 1 and the XSDT pointer is present, as per

trunk/include/acpi/acpixf.h

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include "actypes.h"
 #include "actbl.h"
 
+extern u32 acpi_rsdt_forced;
 /*
  * Global interfaces
  */