Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Table code cleanup

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Georgi [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:13 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Table code cleanup
>
> Am 14.05.2009 18:46, schrieb Myles Watson:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Myles Watson  wrote:
> > > Sorry to be dense.  Could we do this in terms of which tables we want
>
> in
> > > each place?
> > >
> > > Page0 (low_table_start):
> > > COREBOOT TABLE
> > >
> > > 0xf0000 (rom_table):
> > > PIRQ
> > > MPTABLE (with floating table)
> > > ACPI bulk
> > >
> > > 0x7fff0000 (high_tables):
> > > PIRQ
> > > MPTABLE
> > > ACPI bulk
> >
> > That was less than clear :)
>
> In general, I agree with that table.
> The constraints are:
>
> MPTABLE must be two complete copies (because of Linux)
>
> ACPI must be one copy (because there needs to be a single address for
>
> some objects) with two RSDPs (see below).

What about gdt?  It ends up in two places now, but never in fseg.  Why do we
copy it to high_tables?

Thanks,
Myles