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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html