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Message-ID: <4F6E4E3A.7060307@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:44:10 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net,
vojcek@...n.pl, dsdt@...gusch.at, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>, lenb@...nel.org,
robert.moore@...el.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Harald Hoyer <harald@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via
initrd
On 03/24/2012 03:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The attached cpio-parsing code compiles to 458 bytes on x86-64 and 476
> bytes on i386, and that is without any library dependencies at all.
> Again, it will completely stop at the first compressed data item, so any
> such kernel objects absolutely will have to be first. In good Linux
> tradition, it is also completely untested.
>
> However, given that very reasonable size I would think that this is a
> reasonable approach. Anyone who has a better suggestion for the
> namespace than "kernel/"?
>
Slightly improved version with actually working memcmp()...
-hpa
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