Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not following the whole discussion here, but my impression is that
what's in my -next branch is acceptable
(http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git;a=commitdiff;h=328949ff10f2e3fcb11472571294beed39488342)

If not, please explain further and provide a patch to fix it.

Bjorn
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