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   From: "Lars Erdmann"    
      
   > 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.   
      
   What is so difficult to dump the MPS tables ? It's just located at some    
   physical memory location.   
   It is easy to scan for the table.   
   SCREEN01.SYS offers an IOCTL to map a physical address range into    
   application memory range.   
   It's straightforward to use. In fact I had started such a utility for    
   searching some of the ACPI tables, same game.   
      
   I don't know why you are so hung up on EFI.   
      
      
   Lars    
      
      
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