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SubjectRe: [RFC] amd64_edac: syndromes loading
On 11/02/2009 06:13 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> Alternatively, we could make the syndromes builtin thus removing the
>> requirement to go to userspace for the loading. For that we'll need
>> two new .c files in drivers/edac/ which represent the x4 and x8 tables
>> respectively:
>>
>> unsigned short x8_raw_data[] = {
>> 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>> 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>> 0x0000, 0x0100, 0x0001, 0x0101, 0x01B8, 0x015C, 0x012E, 0x01C6, 0x0163,
>> 0x01FD, 0x0189, 0x019D, 0xB801, 0x5C01, 0x2E01, 0xC601, 0x6301, 0xFD01,
>> 0x8901, 0x9D01, 0x0200, 0x0002, 0x0202, 0x0201, 0x02B8, 0x025C, 0x02FD,
>> ....
>>
>> The drawback with these is that they'll always be builtin, enlarging
>> kernel code by 10-15K although only one of them is in use.
>
> I believe that 15K is reasonable price to pay for not having to
> install another 'firmware' file.
> Pavel

a) aren't these computable somehow? If so, it's probably easier to
include the algorithm in the kernel rather than a table.

b) "I believe that 15K is reasonable price to pay for not having to
install another 'firmware' file." I think that's a tradeoff a lot of
people would *not* choose to make. This is of course why we have (or at
least, should have) to either compile in firmware blobs or not.

-hpa


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