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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:29:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6FAA63.2020107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120325092533.GA13307@liondog.tnic>

On 03/25/2012 02:25 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
>> /*
>>  * findcpio.c
>>  *
>>  * Find a specific cpio member; must precede any compressed content.
> 
> Looks simple enough. Btw, there's some cpio handling already done in
> <init/initramfs.c> - probably reuse some of the code there...?
> 

Quite possible, but then you will have to untangle the dependencies.
Keep in mind that it needs to be able to compile this in such a way that
you have no library dependencies and no fixed address references (so
that it can be invoked from the pre-paging code to get microcode updates
in as early as at all possible.)  So code reuse is a bit tricky at least
for that specific use case.  The ACPI code is less sensitive since it
comes a lot later.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-25 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 14:29 [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd Thomas Renninger
2012-03-23 15:51 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-23 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24  1:42   ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24  2:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24  3:02       ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24  4:40         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24  4:43         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24  4:50           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24  4:58             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24  9:24           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-24 18:49             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25  8:54               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-26  1:36                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:21                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-26  0:45           ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-26  1:25             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:19               ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-26 14:46                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:51                   ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-27  4:15                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-27  4:46               ` Peter Stuge
2012-03-27  6:18                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 18:42       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-24 19:15         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 19:17           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-24 19:44             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 22:21             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 22:44               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25  9:25                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-25 23:29                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-25  4:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25  9:07                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-23 20:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24  0:15   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24  1:05   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24  1:22     ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24  1:26   ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24  4:41     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-26  0:45       ` Thomas Renninger

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