On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:10:16AM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> The 'rover' was named as 'mem_rover', but the length of this line is too
> long. So shorten it as 'rever' so that they can keep in one line.
I still have no clue what "rover" or "rever" means...
> This name came from ACPI driver code,
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:46:42PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
>> Imitate ACPI code to search RSDP pointer from memory.
>> Walk memory and check the signature until get the RSDP signature.
>> Based on acpi_tb_scan_memory_for_rsdp() and
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:46:42PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> Imitate ACPI code to search RSDP pointer from memory.
> Walk memory and check the signature until get the RSDP signature.
> Based on acpi_tb_scan_memory_for_rsdp() and acpi_find_root_pointer().
> If didn't get RSDP from EFI table, will
Imitate ACPI code to search RSDP pointer from memory.
Walk memory and check the signature until get the RSDP signature.
Based on acpi_tb_scan_memory_for_rsdp() and acpi_find_root_pointer().
If didn't get RSDP from EFI table, will run this function.
Used for later patch to dig out SRAT table and