Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:37:34 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c Message-ID: <200406041437.34052.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040604101725.X50992@root.org> References: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040604101725.X50992@root.org>
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On Friday 04 June 2004 01:18 pm, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <20040603160405.E45592@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: > > >Many BIOS strings have alignment requirements. That might be useful to > > >add. > > > > Once we need it we'll know what to add. Adding it now without any code > > which needs it would violate the third X11 principle: > > > > 3.The only thing worse than generalizing from one example > > is generalizing from no examples at all. > > sys/i386/libi386/biosacpi.c > > And all ACPI tables must be 16-byte aligned. As is the MP Table, $PIR, _32_, and $PnP. Note that bios_sigsearch() takes an alignment (called paragraph length or some such). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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