On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:19 PM Schmauss, Erik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-acpi-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rafael J. Wysocki
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:45 AM
> > To: Busch, Keith <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>; ACPI Devel
> > Maling List <[email protected]>; Linux Memory Management List
> > <[email protected]>; Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <[email protected]>; Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>;
> > Hansen, Dave <[email protected]>; Williams, Dan J
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 01/12] acpi: Create subtable parsing infrastructure
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 2:05 AM Keith Busch <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
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> Hi Rafael and Bob,
>
> > > Parsing entries in an ACPI table had assumed a generic header
> > > structure that is most common. There is no standard ACPI header,
> > > though, so less common types would need custom parsers if they want go
> > > through their sub-table entry list.
> >
> > It looks like the problem at hand is that acpi_hmat_structure is 
> > incompatible
> > with acpi_subtable_header because of the different layout and field sizes.
>
> Just out of curiosity, why don't we use ACPICA code to parse static ACPI 
> tables
> in Linux?
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> We have a disassembler for static tables that parses all supported tables. 
> This
> seems like a duplication of code/effort...

Oh, I thought acpi_table_parse_entries() was the common code. What's
the ACPICA duplicate?

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