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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name
On 08/18/2012 09:35 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
>>> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:hmh@hmh.eng.br] On Sat, 18 Aug
>>> 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote:
>>>> Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area.
>>> This will
>>>> be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But this function
>>> is
>>>> generic and could be used in other places.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't this (very useful) feature get its own documentation in
>>> Documentation/ ?
>>
>> Yes, I can document the feature. And if it's generic and useful, this
>> function could be put in generic kernel instead of in x86 arch.
>
> It is useful to override/fix all sort of critical firmware-provided tables,
> for example. ACPI table overrides should use this new cpio-based scheme as
> well, and I recall someone wrote something about device tree overrides in a
> past thread...
>

Indeed, we already have those two users already identified.

-hpa




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