On 20 May 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
On the same vein I am very tempted after those tables have been implemented to write a version of mkelfImage that will generate a pirq and an mptable from the LinuxBIOS table. Then we can remove that cruft from the LinuxBIOS.
yes, and also eliminate error-prone $PIR tables. I am really sick of getting $PIR tables from broken BIOSes.
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