Does linux kernel parse linuxbios table?

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Oct 21 05:31:01 CEST 2004


Liu Tao <liutao at safe-mail.net> writes:

> Hello Eric,
> 
>    I searched the linux kernel mail archive and found your
> patch for x86 boot linuxbios support, but I didn't find the
> linuxbios table parse code in linux-2.6.8.1, does linux kernel
> still parse the linuxbios table now?

Not currently.  When I originally introduced the table I could not
get my patch in.  At the moment mkelfImage just digest the table
and feeds Linux what it is expecting.

A bit of hack but a pragmatic solution for now.

Eric



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