Wndows 7/2008 R2 Loaders

then a compile time option would be best

 

It's never ending. Just when I thought I had it cracked thre's another problem.
There are 2 other tables pointed to by addresses in the FACP table which funnily enough has the same structure as the FADTtable.
These 2 tables are not displayed using the Slic Toolkit so I didn't know that they may need relocating too.

I'm tempted to just relocate to the EBDA but I think I'm nearly there now.

 

Nice to see you have been 'Challenged' and improving stuff

BTW, have you have any idea why the grldrslic.iso refuses to boot on Virtual Box, i keep getting the 'open /oem.bin fail' error (is it a Virtual Box bug?)
I tried about everything, all lowercase, all uppercase to comply with iso9660 standard etc.

 

No idea..... yet but I've installed Sun VirtuaBox at work and so I will test it out on Monday if that's alright.

Solution for DSDT table is to bail out and go for EBDA relocation as the DSDT is a massive table.

That's me done for today.
@Freestyler. I will double check my code tomorrow and re up a link as a little insurance aginst unexpected Bus and Truck interrupts if you know what I mean.

 

I think it must be a VirtualBox problem. I get the same here with all configurations. Even burning to CD and settig the Virual machine to use the host CD gives the same problem.

 

Hi

I have completed my latest changes.

In place update RSDT/XSDT, better places for SLIC (but it appears from what I've read that it really doesn't matter where you put the SLIC because the OS (windows) just maps around anything used for ACPI). Failing that relocate to EBDA.
I have tested for ACPI 1.0, tomorrow I can test 2 other scenarios and then will publish the code, new bootable CD iso for Freestyler and the SCRIPTS folder to install for everybody else.

I will also provide the windows/linux environment so anybody wanting to can compile the code using just windows. A single download will be provided, ignore what you don't want. The changes to do the code are in stage2/builtins.c if you want to know.

schöne Grüsse aus Österreich.

 

My German isn't brilliant, but does that mean "Hello/Greetings from Austria" or something?

 

"nice greetings from Austria"

Ich brauche, um Bier zu holen heute

 

I need to get beer today? I think anyway.

Back on topic already

 

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I have started coding and I settled on the idea of comparing the oem field of the
RSD PTR and the first 6 bytes of the oem field of the ACPI tables and only changing
it if they match, so ACPI tables like yours will be untouched, but the tables on the
machine below will get updated.

EDIT: on second thought maybe 4 bytes to grab machines like "Sony " for
RSD PTR and "SonyViao " for tables

Code:

Please select the 'Courier' font format to read !

Table NameOEMID&TableIDAddress  LenthDescription Table  (ACPI 1.0)

RSD PTR DELL          000FC9B0    20Root System Desc.Pointer
 |
 |- RSDTACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFD9C00    68Root System Desc.Table
       |
    00 |- FACP  DELL  CPi R   7FFDB400   116
    01 |- APIC  DELL  CPi R   7FFDBC00   104
    02 |- MCFG  DELL  CPi R   7FFDBBC0    62
    03 |- BOOT  DELL  CPi R   7FFDB7C0    40
    04 |- SSDT  PmRefCpu0Ist  7FFDABE6   640
    05 |- SSDT  PmRefCpu0Cst  7FFDAA0E   472
    06 |- SSDT  PmRefCpuPm    7FFDA813   507
  * 07 |- SLIC  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFD9E00   374Software Licensing Desc.Table

      --- Scan  Finished ---

 

coding is done before and after tables.

Code:

before-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table NameOEMID&TableIDAddress  LenthDescription Table  (ACPI 2.0)

RSD PTR PTLTD         000F6940    36Root System Desc.Pointer
 |
 |- RSDTINTEL 440BX   7FEE4568    56Root System Desc.Table
 |     |
 |  00 |- FACP  INTEL 440BX   7FEFEF8C   116
 |  01 |- BOOT  PTLTD $SBFTBL$7FEE46FC    40
 |  02 |- APIC  PTLTD  APIC  7FEE46AC    80
 |  03 |- MCFG  PTLTD $PCITBL$7FEE4670    60
 |  04 |- SRAT  VMWAREMEMPLUG 7FEE45A0   208
 |  
 |- XSDTINTEL 440BX   7FEE451C    76Extended System Desc.Table
       |
    00 |- FACP  INTEL 440BX   7FEFEE98   244
    01 |- BOOT  PTLTD $SBFTBL$7FEE46FC    40
    02 |- APIC  PTLTD  APIC  7FEE46AC    80
    03 |- MCFG  PTLTD $PCITBL$7FEE4670    60
    04 |- SRAT  VMWAREMEMPLUG 7FEE45A0   208

After--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table NameOEMID&TableIDAddress  LenthDescription Table  (ACPI 2.0)

RSD PTR ACRSYS        000F6940    36Root System Desc.Pointer
 |
 |- RSDTACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFFFC00    60Root System Desc.Table
 |     |
 |  00 |- FACP  INTEL 440BX   7FEFEF8C   116
 |  01 |- BOOT  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE46FC    40
 |  02 |- APIC  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE46AC    80
 |  03 |- MCFG  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE4670    60
 |  04 |- SRAT  VMWAREMEMPLUG 7FEE45A0   208
 |* 05 |- SLIC  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFFFE00   374Software Licensing Desc.Table
 |  
 |- XSDTACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFFFD00    84Extended System Desc.Table
       |
    00 |- FACP  INTEL 440BX   7FEFEE98   244
    01 |- BOOT  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE46FC    40
    02 |- APIC  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE46AC    80
    03 |- MCFG  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FEE4670    60
    04 |- SRAT  VMWAREMEMPLUG 7FEE45A0   208
  * 05 |- SLIC  ACRSYSACRPRDCT7FFFFE00   374Software Licensing Desc.Table

 

Ich auch, und Schnaps dazu!

 

but only > 40% if u know what I mean

 

Schnaps ist für die kleinen Mädchen, lassen die Männer trinken ihren alten Scotch.

Translation, I like whiskey that has a bite to it.

 

Ich hab nicht gewusst dass so viele Leute gut Deutsch sprechen können.
Back to English.
Final testing nearly finished but there's still some bugs I think. I'll publish tonight and have a week off I think.

 

Ever heard of Google translate?

I'm back up and running again... ready to test, had serious issues loading my user profile in windows 7 after resizing a partition... took me about 2 days to get it restored and up and running as before... pffff

 

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I can remember having a huge headache after drinking that stuff

 

Funny. I never remember ANYTHING when I drink it