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