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

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Mar 17 17:41:34 CET 2009


On 17.03.2009 16:53 Uhr, Myles Watson wrote:
> 2009/3/17 Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>
>   
Thanks, r4016

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