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+#ifndef LINUXBIOS_TABLES_H
+#define LINUXBIOS_TABLES_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* The linuxbios table information is for conveying information
+ * from the firmware to the loaded OS image.  Primarily this
+ * is expected to be information that cannot be discovered by
+ * other means, such as quering the hardware directly.
+ *
+ * All of the information should be Position Independent Data.  
+ * That is it should be safe to relocated any of the information
+ * without it's meaning/correctnes changing.   For table that
+ * can reasonably be used on multiple architectures the data
+ * size should be fixed.  This should ease the transition between
+ * 32 bit and 64 bit architectures etc.
+ *
+ * The completeness test for the information in this table is:
+ * - Can all of the hardware be detected?
+ * - Are the per motherboard constants available?
+ * - Is there enough to allow a kernel to run that was written before
+ *   a particular motherboard is constructed? (Assuming the kernel
+ *   has drivers for all of the hardware but it does not have
+ *   assumptions on how the hardware is connected together).
+ *
+ * With this test it should be straight forward to determine if a
+ * table entry is required or not.  This should remove much of the
+ * long term compatibility burden as table entries which are
+ * irrelevant or have been replaced by better alternatives may be
+ * dropped.  Of course it is polite and expidite to include extra
+ * table entries and be backwards compatible, but it is not required.
+ */
+
+
+struct lb_header
+{
+	uint8_t  signature[4]; /* LBIO */
+	uint32_t header_bytes;
+	uint32_t header_checksum;
+	uint32_t table_bytes;
+	uint32_t table_checksum;
+	uint32_t table_entries;
+};
+
+/* Every entry in the boot enviroment list will correspond to a boot
+ * info record.  Encoding both type and size.  The type is obviously
+ * so you can tell what it is.  The size allows you to skip that
+ * boot enviroment record if you don't know what it easy.  This allows
+ * forward compatibility with records not yet defined.
+ */
+struct lb_record {
+	uint32_t tag;		/* tag ID */
+	uint32_t size;		/* size of record (in bytes) */
+};
+
+#define LB_TAG_UNUSED	0x0000
+
+#define LB_TAG_MEMORY	0x0001
+
+struct lb_memory_range {
+	uint64_t start;
+	uint64_t size;
+	uint32_t type;
+#define LB_MEM_RAM      1
+#define LB_MEM_RESERVED 2
+	
+};
+
+struct lb_memory {
+	uint32_t tag;
+	uint32_t size;
+	struct lb_memory_range map[0];
+};
+
+#define LB_TAG_HWRPB	0x0002
+struct lb_hwrpb {
+	uint32_t tag;
+	uint32_t size;
+	uint64_t hwrpb;
+};
+
+#endif /* LINUXBIOS_TABLES_H */