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...prevents accidental re-detection, for example. + +MEMDISK adds one additional extension field to the "safe hook" structure, a +pointer to a special MEMDISK structure called the "mBFT." The mBFT is the +"MEMDISK Boot Firmware Table" (akin to the iSCSI iBFT and the AoE aBFT). An +OS driver looking at MEMDISK's "safe hook" should know that this field will +be present based on the fact that MEMDISK is the vendor identifier. + +The mBFT is little more than an ACPI table to prefix MEMDISK's traditional +MEMDISK info structure (the "MDI"). The...

I tested the memdisk-acpi branch with following results: - Bochs The BIOS provides a RSDT. Available tables are RSDT, FACP, DSDT, FACS, APIC, SSDT. memdisk-acpi is able to hook the SSDT. - VMware The BIOS provides a RSDT and XSDT. Available tables are RSDT, FACP, DSDT(*), FACS(*), BOOT(*), APIC(*) and XSDT, FACP, DSDT(*), FACS(*), BOOT(*), APIC(*). Tables marked with an asterisk (*) are