[coreboot] [PATCH] put coreboot table in high tables area

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Mar 17 16:04:18 CET 2009


On 17.03.2009 15:43 Uhr, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> One suggestion - instead of making the "floating table" be a sub-table
> of a coreboot-table, make it a stand alone data structure.  As it
> stands, I think existing code might get confused when it finds a
> coreboot table without any real data in it.
>   
No worries about that, almost all existing code is fixed up by now.
Also, the existing implementations are not less confused if they don't
find a table at all. The format was designed to be flexible enough to
handle any number of subtables dynamically.

Attached  is the patch against libpayload.

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