[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v4 2/5] pmm: support looking up a given pattern in FSEG

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Wed Sep 25 08:56:47 CEST 2013


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:30:13PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 03:26:44AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 07:35:09PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:20:28PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Will be used to find RSDP there.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > Just scan from 0xf0000-0x100000.  Don't modify pmm.c.  Also, take a
> > > look at fw/biostables.c - as that code is already there to do this
> > > type of scanning.
> > > 
> > > -Kevin
> > 
> > Hmm which function do you mean specifically?
> > I don't see anything resembling that there ...
> 
> Hrmm - that got moved around.  The example I was thinking of is now in
> coreboot.c:scan_tables().  The goal is not to copy the table (as
> coreboot does), but to point out that there is already code to do
> scanning.
> 
> -Kevin

Hmm I'm not sure how to reuse anything from there ...
does the patch I sent look reasonable?



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