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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch 0/2] Disable ACPI SRAT, SLIT

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch 0/2] Disable ACPI SRAT, SLIT on dom0
From: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:14:29 +0900
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Hi, Alex and Keir

>   Would it make more sense to create the acpi_table_disable() and
>support functions in the common acpi code?  The only ia64 specific parts
>of the implementation appear to be writing "XenIPF" for the OEM ID and
>calling generate_acpi_checksum().  The latter could easily be moved, or
>maybe we could make use of acpi_table_compute_checksum().  The new OEM
>ID could be passed into the function, but it might be just as useful to
>write the original table signature into the OEM ID field so we know what
>it was (ex. "xSRATx").  Thanks,
Exactly, I want to move them to common code. 
Keir, is this good?

BTW, we may rewrite also OEM Table ID.
How about the below?

signature    = OEMx
OEM ID       = xSRATx
OEM table ID = Xen

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe


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