Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2005 07:14:07 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c |
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:04:35PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, Paul Mackeras wrote: > > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > > > > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer? > > > > > > > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/128 > > > > Yes, we currently use bits of lib/ in the zImage boot wrapper. I > > suspect we used to have our own string routines for the boot wrapper > > until somebody said "why do we have all this code duplicated" and > > cleaned it up. :) > > We cant continue to use files from lib/ in arch/powerpc/boot when they > start to use kernel internals like kmalloc. I converted a few > zlib_inflate files with sed already. But things will get really ugly if > we have to do more on-the-fly modifications. After all, > arch/$ARCH/boot is no kernel code, it has to be standalone. > Maybe we should just have no arch/powerpc/boot.
I've always thought one of the nice points about ppc linux was that the kernel just booted on your board, no matter what crazy firmware there was.
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