Re: [PATCH v2] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper functions

Nicolas Pitre
2012-06-12T17:45:06Z

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 06/12/2012 10:26 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> > Instead of copying, maybe this would be much better to make the content
> > of lib/string.c usable in a pre-boot environment.
> >
>
> Not sure about that... a lot of it is #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_* and you
> *really* want those optimizations on some arches.

Sure. What about:

lib/boot/mem.c: lib/string.c
sed 's/^#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_/#ifndef __HAVE_PREBOOT_ARCH_/' < $< > $@

This is over simplified but you get the idea. Maybe lib/string.c itself
should be split into several files to help with a finer grained
selection.

Nicolas