Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 19:51:42 EST


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 04:15 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>
> I don't see why that isn't the right fix. We copy the data into
> boot_params early in the boot; that *is* the official copy as far as the
> kernel is concerned.
>
> So this patch very much seems like The Right Thing.

it moves boot_params from __initdata to data.
and just for using pointer to setup_data.

should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes.

Yinghai
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/