Re: OS2APIC.PSD

From	Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.setup.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, comp.os.os2.misc, comp.os.os2.apps
Subject	Re: OS2APIC.PSD
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Date	2011-08-19 12:24 +0100

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> I've now read through the Intel MPS 1.4 spec...and started looking at making
> a quick port of the Unix style 'mptable' utility. I assume that we OS2
> users could use this type of info...not that it may directly fix
> anything, but rather to give us more info on exactly what the BIOS
> stuck in place and what our machine is attempting to do with
> that info.

You've made me think.  One obviously missing utility is an EFI utility 
to do this, so people can bootstrap into the EFI Shell and dump out 
their MPS tables from there.

It should be even easier than another form of MPS table dumper.  For 
starters, whilst a program to run on bare PC98 firmware, or on top of 
OS/2, has to locate the table by scanning physical memory (which as 
pointed out requires some shenanighans from application-mode code, and 
which is somewhat tricky even if running in real mode on bare PC98 
firmware) an EFI application has no such worries.  The locations of the 
various tables (ACPI, MPS, SMBIOS, and so forth) are supplied to EFI 
utililty programs directly as startup parameters.

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  Re: doscall1 "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-08-10 18:51 +0000
    Re: doscall1 "Lars Erdmann" <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2011-08-11 08:47 +0200
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    Re: OS2APIC.PSD Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-08-12 14:02 +0100
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        Re: OS2APIC.PSD Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-08-18 01:10 +0100
          Re: OS2APIC.PSD "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-08-18 01:04 +0000
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  Re: doscall1 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-11 07:54 -0700
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      Re: doscall1 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-11 17:10 -0700
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          Re: Southbridges and interrupts Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 19:28 -0700
            Re: Southbridges and interrupts Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-08-15 18:07 +0100
              Re: Southbridges and interrupts Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 17:38 -0700
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