Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 07:14:07 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:04:35PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 02, Paul Mackeras wrote:
> 
> > Andrew Morton writes:
> > 
> > > > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/128
> > 
> > Yes, we currently use bits of lib/ in the zImage boot wrapper.  I
> > suspect we used to have our own string routines for the boot wrapper
> > until somebody said "why do we have all this code duplicated" and
> > cleaned it up. :)
> 
> We cant continue to use files from lib/ in arch/powerpc/boot when they
> start to use kernel internals like kmalloc. I converted a few
> zlib_inflate files with sed already. But things will get really ugly if
> we have to do more on-the-fly modifications. After all,
> arch/$ARCH/boot is no kernel code, it has to be standalone.
> Maybe we should just have no arch/powerpc/boot.

I've always thought one of the nice points about ppc linux was that the
kernel just booted on your board, no matter what crazy firmware there
was.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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