Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 19:56:32 EST


On 12/05/2012 04:51 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> it moves boot_params from __initdata to data.
> and just for using pointer to setup_data.
>
> should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes.
>

That is not the only bit. We already have covered how kexec could use
the whole structure, and really, how big a deal is a page of cache-cold
storage?

-hpa


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