From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:28:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKc4mXGWQi7a06a3tkhDe+z+VCX-z2BhapaSq=ZNYpPJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <856dd0396cfa3bdef849de6d15d42da8@coraid.com>
Many PIR tables on many platforms are just flat-out wrong. As
mentioned here in earlier years, something like 50% of the geode
platforms out there had incorrect PIR tables, and Linux had incorrect
interpretation of those tables inserted which made the 1/2 boards that
were working break (this was all 10 years ago)
Why is it not fixed? Because, nowadays, the thing you're supposed to
use is the ACPI table. We've seen cases where both PIR and _MP_ were
copied from a different motherboard, with no change, and were
completely wrong. It's obvious that most vendors don't care to take
the time to make these tables right.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 18:40 Bakul Shah
2011-07-07 1:10 ` Fernan Bolando
2011-07-08 6:19 ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-08 15:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-08 16:28 ` ron minnich [this message]
[not found] ` <CAP6exYKc4mXGWQi7a06a3tkhDe+z+VCX-z2BhapaSq=ZNYpPJg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-08 17:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-08 17:43 ` ron minnich
2011-07-08 20:41 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-27 19:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-07-07 7:53 ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-07 15:29 ` erik quanstrom
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