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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:22:24 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mptable mptable.c 
Message-ID:  <200101191322.f0JDMOk13547@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101180742.f0I7g3685474@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> peter       2001/01/17 23:42:02 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/mptable     mptable.c 
>   Log:
>   Deal with table parsing bugs caused by out-of-order record entries.
>   Complain about out-of-order entries.  This fixes the 'mp extended
>   table HOSED!" report on the DL360 we have here with the "fixed" compaq
>   bios rom to fix the table length off-by-one error.

Incidently, any bios that triggers this is broken. The MPspec specifically
says the records are to be sorted in ascending order by type.  However,
certain bios's dont obey that.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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