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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2013-08-08 15:29:51 +0800
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-08-13 13:13:21 +0200
commit1d82980c99ef2a91459ea39627d8114befb2c895 (patch)
tree8f1b9050a83c729102f2df545e5542d57e21e974 /drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
parent2641f540800b47a1b9e9d8ce9d682fc15df088e2 (diff)
ACPICA: Make ACPI Power Management Timer (PM Timer) optional.
PM Timer is now optional. This support is already in Windows8 and "SHOULD" come out in ACPI 5.0A (if all goes well). The change doesn't affect Linux directly, because it does not rely on the presence of the PM timer. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
index 33b00d22300a..9d99f2189693 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static struct acpi_fadt_info fadt_info_table[] = {
ACPI_FADT_OFFSET(pm_timer_block),
ACPI_FADT_OFFSET(pm_timer_length),
ACPI_PM_TIMER_WIDTH,
- ACPI_FADT_REQUIRED},
+ ACPI_FADT_SEPARATE_LENGTH}, /* ACPI 5.0A: Timer is optional */
{"Gpe0Block",
ACPI_FADT_OFFSET(xgpe0_block),
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static void acpi_tb_validate_fadt(void)
if (fadt_info_table[i].type & ACPI_FADT_REQUIRED) {
/*
- * Field is required (Pm1a_event, Pm1a_control, pm_timer).
+ * Field is required (Pm1a_event, Pm1a_control).
* Both the address and length must be non-zero.
*/
if (!address64->address || !length) {