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Information related to the FPSWA driver for EFI/ia64 platforms
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(c) 2002-2003 Hewlett Packard Co
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Contributed by Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
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This document is irrelevant for EFI/ia32 platforms.
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On all EFI/ia64 platforms, the bootloader is responsible for checking for
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the presence on the EFI system partition of an updated version of the
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Floating-Point Software Assist (FPSWA) EFI driver (fpswa.efi). For every
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instance found, elilo will load the driver and let EFI decide if it is
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newer than the currently installed version. In the end at most one driver
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is kept in memory.
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Elilo will look for a file called fpswa.efi in the \EFI\Intel Firmware
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(there is a space between l and F) directory on ALL accessible EFI system
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partitions (including on removable media). It will do so even when elilo
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is downloaded from the network. It does not look for the driver in the
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ext2fs partitions.
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The FPSWA reference document is available from the Intel developer's web
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site at http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium.
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