This is my last submission of this patch. I've made the board depend on CONFIG_EXPERT, and added a help menu describing it does not work. I leave the mptable because I have invested significant effort into making sure it is correct. I leave the APCI table because I have invested effort into getting the _PRT to be correct.
There is a comment in a linux source file: "Some [firmware] writers are clueless". I feel like one of those firmware writers, be it because I wasn't able to find the information I need, or I have and am not able to understand it.
I have gotten tired of spinning in circles with this board, and am thus abandoning it. I make this last submission on a use it or lose it basis.
/me out
Alex