I have also noticed that the irq_tables.c that getpir gave me gives me the wrong checksum. I don't know if this is an error in the pir of the factory bios or the getpir. I'll have to look into this more. Just another example of irq_tables.c not being right.
Jon On 12/19/06, Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Li-Ta Lo wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:17 -0500, Jon Dufresne wrote: > >> In that case this utility program is very misleading, at least to me. > >> Perhaps a large comment should be added to the .c file that either > >> gives a warning that it is incomplete or tips on what to add. > >> > > > > There is no way for the utility to know if it is generating something > > useful. There is zero intelligence in the utility and it just dumps > > whatever it is in the memory in a human and compiler readable form. > > This is a totally use at your own risk thing. > > > > Ollie > > > > > > > So, how exactly do you know if it works or not, just try it? And if it > fails, how do you make it "just work", is there some method for figuring > out where it goes wrong? And finally, would disabling ACPI from the > factory BIOS (if there is such an option) help this? > > Also, hate to hijack this, but I just noticed something from my work on > the FIC SD11, in my irq_tables.c (generated by get_pir.c), it set the > device ID of the southbridge (via vt686a) to 0x586, when it should have > been 0x0686, according to everything I know about this board (manuals, > lspci, etc). Is there some known bug in get_pir.c that could have caused > this (perhaps when dealing with a PCI ID beginning with 0)? I've given > up on that particular board, because slot a cpus are so rare these days, > but the tyan s2507 (my next target) uses a chip with the same PCI ID. > I'll test the script on that once I get done recompiling the entire > system (god bless gentoo). > > -Corey > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
