Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:15:40 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name |
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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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