[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH][RFC] PCBIOS legacy tables

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi, there are several legacy tables that PCBIOS writes, eg. about the io-ports of the various serial ports. We probably need a place for them to be generated, as some clients might rely on the presence of these tables. Grub2 definitely needs the serial port's ioport written at 0x400 (which the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH][RFC] PCBIOS legacy tables

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: + *(u32*)(0x400)=TTYSx_BASE; It's actually an u16 per port. I don't like where this is going. I don't want LB to be BIOS-compatible, I think that would be a regression. What happened with the lbtable and the device tree?