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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: x86 weirdness
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:07:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731170742.GA30009@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5017F6CA.1040308@erwinrol.com>

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:16:26PM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Hey Sascha,
> 
> 
> There seem to be two memset calls, that could be problematic. Both
> should be easily replaceable with for-loops (like I already did by
> the first).
> 
> We just have to be very careful to not call any functions from
> outside the boot dir (expect for the main barebox entry point).

This is probably a good idea anyway since the bss is not cleared at this
stage.

> 
> Don't you love the weird x86 world :-)

I'm glad that most of the time I don't have to care about x86 ;)

Sascha

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 22:36 Erwin Rol
2012-07-31 10:49 ` Erwin Rol
2012-07-31 13:13   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-31 15:16     ` Erwin Rol
2012-07-31 15:51       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-07-31 16:16         ` Erwin Rol
2012-07-31 17:07       ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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