[gPXE-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ibft: Update iBFT handling for v1.03 of the spec.
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Wed May 12 10:09:07 EDT 2010
On 05/12/2010 01:26 AM, Len Brown wrote:
>
>> #define IBFT_SIGN "iBFT"
> ...
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
>> + /*
>> + * One spec says "IBFT", the other says "iBFT". We have to check
>> + * for both.
>> + */
>
> Really?
> Which one do you see in the field?
Well, we haven't seen any ACPI-based hardware yet AFAIK - but I'm supposed to
have some soon. So it's too early to tell which one is actually going to be
the more common case, or if this is really a non-issue.
> any reason to #define "iBFT" above and not use it below?
Nope, that's just an error. I'll send a patch.
>
>> + if (!ibft_addr)
>> + acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_IBFT, acpi_find_ibft);
>> + if (!ibft_addr)
>> + acpi_table_parse("iBFT", acpi_find_ibft);
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_ACPI */
>
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Peter
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