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Change subject: Revert "util: Remove 'getpir' and 'mptable' tools" ......................................................................
Patch Set 1:
Patch Set 1: Code-Review+1
Was it useful to you?
Yes, at least it helps to figure out the vendor/device IDs (easy) and Bitmap (hard). For example, I still don't understand the Bitmap value: what is it, where it comes from and how it affects the things. So I flashed a proprietary UEFI, used a getpir utility and it told me that Lenovo G505S has 0xdc90 bitmap - which seems to work. It also helped me with some entries, although the end result is very different (sadly I lost this original getpir output so can't compare at the moment).