Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:19 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] iBFT features for v2.6.36 |
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On 08/03/2010 07:35 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > > The current iBFT specification and the current code (this push) includes the > ability to specify the location of the iBFT table using the standard ACPI table > mechanism, which is required on UEFI machines supporting iBFT, and which I > would encourage non-UEFI machines to also use where possible. Obviously some > systems, especially BIOS-based machines doing iSCSI boot on expansion cards, > have difficulty with this, so we're not planning on de-supporting the old > memory scanning method. >
Not just expansion cards, but also post-INT19 software solutions.
-hpa
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