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@@ -63,3 +63,4 @@ Torsten Seemann Garry Belka Klaus Muth Antoine Fuselier +Matthew Garrett @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +2006-05-10 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + + * dmidecode.c: Don't cast from u8* to dmi_header*, else + architectures which do not support unaligned memory accesses + may break. Instead, copy the members individually. That's a + bit slower, but that's also safer and we only need to do it + once per DMI entry, so it's not time critical. So far, we + were using a trick to later work around the unaligned memory + access, but the compiler would still warn about the risk, + which is always confusing. + * config.h, types.h, README: Automatically enable the unaligned + memory access workaround on ia64. + * types.h: Inline U64. It makes sense per se and also lets us + get rid of a warning about U64 being unused. + * dmidecode.c: Detect EFI at run-time rather than compilation- + time. Based on an original patch from Matthew Garrett. This + will make x86 binaries work for both PC systems with BIOS and + Macintosh systems with EFI. Also prevent a possible, though + unlikely, NULL-pointer dereference in the EFI code. + +2006-02-25 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + + * dmidecode.c: Fix typo reported by David Wilson (DMI case 3). + 2006-02-04 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> * vpddecode.c: Update lookup table from revision 2006-01-31 of IBM |