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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
