Re: [RFC PATCH v4 3/5] PCI: Check platform specific ECAM quirks

[Tomasz Nowicki]

On 29.06.2016 15:34, Christopher Covington wrote:
> I'm confused by this statement. OEMID is defined as 6 bytes long and OEM
> Table ID as 8 bytes long in the ACPI specification. As far as I can
> tell, if your string isn't exactly that long, padding up to that length
> is required.

Well, I cannot find that requirement in ACPI spec. but I might missed 
something.

I dumped my x86 machine ACPI tables and here is an example of MCFG:

$ cat mcfg.dsl
/*
 * Intel ACPI Component Architecture
 * AML/ASL+ Disassembler version 20160108-64
 * Copyright (c) 2000 - 2016 Intel Corporation
 *
 * Disassembly of mcfg.dat, Wed Jun 29 15:48:16 2016
 *
 * ACPI Data Table [MCFG]
 *
 * Format: [HexOffset DecimalOffset ByteLength]  FieldName : FieldValue
 */

[000h 0000   4]                    Signature : "MCFG"    [Memory Mapped 
Configuration table]
[004h 0004   4]                 Table Length : 0000003C
[008h 0008   1]                     Revision : 01
[009h 0009   1]                     Checksum : A9
[00Ah 0010   6]                       Oem ID : "ALASKA"
[010h 0016   8]                 Oem Table ID : "A M I"
[018h 0024   4]                 Oem Revision : 01072009
[01Ch 0028   4]              Asl Compiler ID : "MSFT"
[020h 0032   4]        Asl Compiler Revision : 00000097

[024h 0036   8]                     Reserved : 0000000000000000

[02Ch 0044   8]                 Base Address : 00000000F8000000
[034h 0052   2]         Segment Group Number : 0000
[036h 0054   1]             Start Bus Number : 00
[037h 0055   1]               End Bus Number : 3F
[038h 0056   4]                     Reserved : 00000000

Raw Table Data: Length 60 (0x3C)

00000000  4d 43 46 47 3c 00 00 00  01 a9 41 4c 41 53 4b 41 
|MCFG<.....ALASKA|
00000010  41 20 4d 20 49 00 00 00  09 20 07 01 4d 53 46 54  |A M I.... 
..MSFT|
00000020  97 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 
|................|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3f  00 00 00 00              |.......?....|

So in this example I have OEM table ID "A M I" 6 character long and 0 
padding.

Tomasz