[U-Boot] x86: ACPI support suggestion

[Simon Glass]

Hi Gabriel,

On 6 February 2015 at 16:01, Gabriel Huau <contact at huau-gabriel.fr> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> Actually I was able to try with a quick&dirty code the integration of the
> ACPI tables (aml files) and it doesn't seem to be possible.
> The boot to Linux is working fine, all the ACPI tables are loaded correctly,
> but the system is unstable and it seems to have some issue with the
> interrupts handler.
>
> As debugging this kind of issues could be really tricky and involve also a
> lot of modification, I think we are stuck to port the ACPI support from
> coreboot to u-boot.
>
> I will try to work on a first draft and see how things look like.

One thing to note is that U-Boot may not currently set up the PCI
interrupts fully. Or perhaps the problem is that ACPI needs to match.
What platform are you using?

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