ACPI: tables: complete searching upon RSDP w/ bad checksum.

ACPI tables follow a tree structure in memory.
The root of the tree is the RSDP (Root System Description Pointer).

To find the RSDP, the OS searches for the signature "RSD PTR "
in well known physical memory locations.  Then the OS computes
a table checksum to verify that the signature is really part
of a valid table header.

Some systems have a proper signature but an invalid checksum;
followed elsewhere by a proper signature with valid checksum.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9444

The Linux RSDP scanning code bailed out on those systems
and as a result they booted with ACPI disabled.

Fix this by deleting the Linux RSDP scanning code and
plugging in the ACPICA RSDP scanning code.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
index 8ccedf7a0a5a..8deb61171558 100644
--- a/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ typedef int (*acpi_table_handler) (struct acpi_table_header *table);
 typedef int (*acpi_table_entry_handler) (struct acpi_subtable_header *header, const unsigned long end);
 
 char * __acpi_map_table (unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned long size);
-unsigned long acpi_find_rsdp (void);
 int acpi_boot_init (void);
 int acpi_boot_table_init (void);
 int acpi_numa_init (void);