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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > 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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