Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 19:52:46 EST


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12/05/2012 04:15 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why that isn't the right fix. We copy the data into
>> boot_params early in the boot; that *is* the official copy as far as the
>> kernel is concerned.
>>
>> So this patch very much seems like The Right Thing.
>
> it moves boot_params from __initdata to data.

should be from __initdata to bss

> and just for using pointer to setup_data.
>
> should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes.
>
> Yinghai
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