[coreboot] [PATCH v3 1/1] libpayload: add support for finding and parsing Coreboot BIOS tables

[Philip Prindeville]

On 8/22/11 4:00 PM, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:01:51 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:01:28 -0700
>> Philip Prindeville <philipp at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Attached.
>>
>> oookay.  I'll await a formal patch with all the cc's, etc.
> 
> Also, if you email the patch inline (rather than as an attachment),
> then we can include comments inline as well.

I wish I could, but alas I use Thunderbird.  Some misguided hacker rewrote the HTML tree-parser and now it generates broken text/plain as a consequence.

Sending attachments is the only way to stop it from mangling.

Yes, I know... I could run another mail agent, but I'm also a contributor to Thunderbird (though in a different area than the HTML parsing) so I try to eat my own dogfood when I can.


>> As for the "upstream" version: if/when this patch is merged, it *is*
>> the upstream version.  The coreboot tree will need to drop the old
>> version and migrate to the new.
> 
> IOW, make sure the coreboot folks are okay with what's being submitted
> as well!

Been trying to but the mailing list and IRC channel have been challenging to evoke any sort of response from.


>> Please be sure to carefully describe the background to the code within
>> the final changelog.  Lots of people won't even know what coreboot
>> *is*.  Spell this out completely and be sure to tell the kernel
>> developers about the value of this patch to our users.
>>
>>
> 
> I'd second this.  I'm minimally familiar with coreboot, but I have no
> idea what the purpose behind coreboot BIOS tables are.

It allows me to identify the manufacturer and board model by querying BIOS for that.

Necessary for platform drivers that don't have another way of detecting the hardware they are running on.