> This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this > signature must contain a trailing > blank character.)" > > So where do we get the guys who design this stuff? Can we send them > back? Or put them in an infinite loop in a time machine (oh wait see > the subject).
i think it's a tradition at this point to use 0x20 and not 0x00 to fill a fixed-with signature. ata identify device uses 0x20 to fill out fixed-width fields like the serial number. i'd be interested where this tradition popped up. 0 would make more sense. - erik
