[syslinux:master] sysdump: fix hacking of the DMI structure address
syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sat Feb 6 23:27:01 PST 2010
Commit-ID: 4d042afa499f879317b2c18dafd714751bd951ba
Gitweb: http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/4d042afa499f879317b2c18dafd714751bd951ba
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:26:00 -0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:26:00 -0800
sysdump: fix hacking of the DMI structure address
Fix the hacking of the DMI structure address, for dmidecode's sake.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
---
com32/sysdump/dmi.c | 11 ++++-------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/com32/sysdump/dmi.c b/com32/sysdump/dmi.c
index a64e5c1..9e57b4b 100644
--- a/com32/sysdump/dmi.c
+++ b/com32/sysdump/dmi.c
@@ -69,12 +69,11 @@ static void dump_smbios(struct backend *be, size_t dptr)
/*
* Adjust the address of the smbios table to be 32, to
- * make dmidecode happy. According to dmidecode, the checksum on
- * the smbios structure doesn't need to be adjusted, for whatever
- * reason...
+ * make dmidecode happy. The checksum on the smbios table is unchanged,
+ * since it includes the checksum on the dmi table.
*/
smx.dmi.tbladdr = sizeof smx;
- smx.dmi.csum -= checksum(&smb->dmi, 0x0f);
+ smx.dmi.csum -= checksum(&smx.dmi, 0x0f);
write_data(be, &smx, sizeof smx, false);
write_data(be, (const void *)smb->dmi.tbladdr, smb->dmi.tbllen, false);
@@ -92,9 +91,7 @@ static void dump_old_dmi(struct backend *be, size_t dptr)
/*
* Adjust the address of the smbios table to be 32, to
- * make dmidecode happy. According to dmidecode, the checksum on
- * the smbios structure doesn't need to be adjusted, for whatever
- * reason...
+ * make dmidecode happy.
*/
fake.dmi = *dmi;
memset(&fake.pad, 0, sizeof fake.pad);
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