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

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 Stephen.Kimball at bench.com wrote:

> My experience has been that running utilities on Linux booted with a
> commercial BIOS does no good at all, because most BIOS's use ACPI
> tables.

umm, depends. I see a lot of variation. I do agree that for many new 
platforms for desktops and laptops, this is true. 


ron