From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper functions
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:38:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC83940.9010708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC82D89.1040108@hp.com>
On 05/31/2012 07:48 PM, Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke wrote:
> On 05/28/2012 01:03 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>
>> can we do not duplicate those functions?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> J.
>
> Thanks J for the comment. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to share
> files among different architectures' preboot environment. We have the
> choices either to have each architecture define its own copies or the
> decompressor defines them. I believe the former is preferable. As
> Lasse also pointed out, this way any specific architecture could provide
> an architectural dependent optimized version, if it chooses to.
>
We could always make a source code library, like we already in effect
have for the compression functions themselves.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 16:03 [PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper functions T Makphaibulchoke
2012-05-24 17:26 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-24 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-24 17:40 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-24 17:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-24 17:50 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-24 17:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25 8:34 ` Lasse Collin
2012-05-25 16:31 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke
2012-05-25 17:05 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke
2012-05-25 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25 19:35 ` Lasse Collin
2012-05-28 7:03 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-06-01 2:48 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke
2012-06-01 2:54 ` Joe Perches
2012-06-01 3:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-06-01 18:37 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke
2012-06-01 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-01 18:58 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulcboke
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