cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 04 June 2004 01:18 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <20040603160405.E45592 at 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).

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