Re: [PATCH 09/18] Move unicode to ASCII conversion to sharedfunction.

[Matt Fleming]

On Sun, 22 Sep, at 03:45:33PM, Roy Franz wrote:
> Move the open-coded conversion to a shared function for
> use by all architectures.  Change the allocation to prefer
> a high address for ARM, as this is required to avoid conflicts
> with reserved regions in low memory.  We don't know the specifics
> of these regions until after we process the command line and
> device tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c       |   43 ++++-------------------
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c |   58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

[...]

> +/* Convert the unicode UEFI command line to ASCII to pass to kernel.
> + * Size of memory allocated return in *cmd_line_len.
> + * Returns NULL on error.
> + */

I futzed with the comments in this patch too.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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