[LinuxBIOS] util/getpir & util/mptable [Was "A boot problem...."]

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 28 22:59:26 CEST 2005



On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote:

> Sorry, I worded the above paragraph far too strongly.  I meant to say
> that booting a COTS BIOS & Linux and running util/getpir and
> util/mptable can be very useful in LinuxBIOS v2, but hand editing the
> results may be required.  It would be nice, if util/getpir and
> util/mptable could be modified so hand editing the resultant irq_table.c
> and mptable.c would not be needed.  This may not be very useful for
> experienced LinuxBIOS developers, but can save a lot of porting time for
> people who don't have as much LinuxBIOS or other BIOS experience.

ah! tell me how it needs to change. I just used getpir recently and did no 
hand editing.

ron




More information about the coreboot mailing list