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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] init: Introduce early initrd files through uncompressed cpio passing
On 07/23/2012 07:40 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> This is another problem and I expect I call:
> early_initrd_find_cpio_data()
> early enough for Fenghua's needs.
> If not, how early exactly is this needed?

We're calling that from arch-specific code before even turning paging
on. This has a couple of consequences:

1. ALL STATIC POINTERS ARE FORBIDDEN. Period. The code must be able to
be executed from a nonstandard linear address, and any static pointer
(like a function pointer) breaks that.

2. Any ideas of doing everything at the same time, or uniform
architecture, is clearly out the window... we're just barely capable of
using C at this point at all.

Now, you definitely do have a valid point about being able to iterate
over multiple files with a common prefix. We could do that with either
a callback (where the callback is passed in as an argument), but I think
it might be nicer to do that as an iterator interface... let me ketch on
this.

> If (just an example) CPU microcode files get passed via "early initrd",
> the same path could be provided than needed by request_fw().

This will all be obsolete. request_fw is available way, way, way too late.


--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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