Re: [RFC PATCH 09/33] Add start-of-day setup hooks to subarch

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 06:02:57 EST


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> plain text document attachment (i386-setup)
> Implement the start-of-day subarchitecture setup hooks for booting on
> Xen. Add subarch macros for determining loader type and initrd
> location.

> diff -r a5848bce3730 arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Thu Jun 22 16:02:54 2006 -0400
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Thu Jun 22 20:20:31 2006 -0400
> @@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ static void __init print_memory_map(char
> }
> }
>
> +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_E820_SANITIZE
> /*
> * Sanitize the BIOS e820 map.
> *
> @@ -677,6 +678,7 @@ int __init copy_e820_map(struct e820entr
> } while (biosmap++,--nr_map);
> return 0;
> }
> +#endif
>
Hi,

what is this for? Isn't this 1) undocumented and 2) unclear and 3)
ugly ? (I'm pretty sure the HAVE_ARCH_* stuff is highly deprecated for
new things nowadays)

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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