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Re: Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 1/4: Find ta
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 1/4: Find tables |
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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:05:47 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:44:42PM +0000, Patrick Georgi wrote:
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> First issue: Right now, grub2 has a hard coded location for the lbtables
> and gives up if they're not there.
> According to the coreboot sources, these tables can start anywhere
> between 0x500 and 0x1000, or between 0xf0000 and 0x100000 at a 16 byte
> boundary.
> To find it, checking for the "LBIO"-signature (as is done already) should
> be enough.
Is the "LBIO" signature schedule to change due to CoreBoot rename? Should we
check for another one as well?
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Robert Millan
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