ACK: [PATCH 02/21] FADT: non-x86 machines need an FADT but x86 can survive without one

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Tue Feb 9 11:45:30 UTC 2016


On 09/02/16 01:32, Al Stone wrote:
> If there is no FADT, x86 machines can get by.  Others cannot (or at
> least should not).  On non-x86 machines, cause the initialization to
> fail instead of ignoring a zero-length FADT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone at linaro.org>
> ---
>  src/acpi/fadt/fadt.c | 13 ++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/acpi/fadt/fadt.c b/src/acpi/fadt/fadt.c
> index 1a5560c..aacf317 100644
> --- a/src/acpi/fadt/fadt.c
> +++ b/src/acpi/fadt/fadt.c
> @@ -56,10 +56,17 @@ static int fadt_init(fwts_framework *fw)
>  	fadt = (const fwts_acpi_table_fadt*)table->data;
>  	fadt_size = table->length;
>  
> -	/*  Not having a FADT is not a failure */
> +	/*  Not having a FADT is not a failure on x86 */
>  	if (fadt_size == 0) {
> -		fwts_log_info(fw, "FADT does not exist, this is not necessarily a failure, skipping tests.");
> -		return FWTS_SKIP;
> +		if (fw->target_arch == FWTS_ARCH_X86) {
> +			fwts_log_info(fw,
> +				      "FADT does not exist, this is not "
> +				      "necessarily a failure, skipping tests.");
> +			return FWTS_SKIP;
> +		} else {
> +			fwts_log_error(fw, "ACPI table FACP has zero length!");
> +			return FWTS_ERROR;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	return FWTS_OK;
> 
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonucal.com>



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