From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
Linux-tiny@selenic.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code (Linux Tiny)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:19:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BF90C6.5020906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203734617.14838.169.camel@cinder.waste.org>
Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> This is not quite what Peter and I were thinking of, I think. It's not
> at all generic. How about a section that simply contains a set of
> function pointers, a macro to add things to that section, and a function
> that calls all the pointers in that section. Eg:
>
> CALLBACK_SECTION(init_cpu_amd, "cpuvendor.init");
> invoke_callback_section("cpuvendor.init");
>
> ..which would give us a generic facility we could use in various places.
>
Indeed, we already have enough instances of this kind of stuff.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 22:47 [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-08 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-08 23:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-09 9:31 ` Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-11 22:42 ` Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-11 22:56 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-11 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-11 23:28 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-12 0:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-12 1:15 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-15 11:00 ` [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code (Linux Tiny) Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-17 18:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-17 19:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-23 2:43 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-23 3:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-25 8:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-25 17:03 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-25 17:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-25 17:58 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-11 22:59 ` [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-08 23:20 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-09 8:30 ` Simon Holm Thøgersen
2008-02-09 9:29 ` Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-09 10:05 ` Simon Holm Thøgersen
2008-02-09 21:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-09 9:26 ` Michael Opdenacker
2008-02-09 3:48 ` Taral
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