On 01/17/2012 08:49 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> >> Are there really hardware/firmware configurations that support IBFT >> and do not support ACPI? > > gPXE can be used in legacy environments. And it (gPXE) does not update > the ACPI tables. > That's irrelevant. THe point is that iBFT *is* an ACPI table. > I think that would work. And also if 'acpi_disabled=0' as you might > have an IBFT table in memory that is _not_ hooked up to the ACPI tables. That is *always* the case, the "finder" is nonstandard (because the ACPI tables are largely non-extensible, says the one who has tried to actually extend ACPI tables in memory.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
