Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:45:36 +0100 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] romsignature/checksum cleanup |
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 01:53 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
>> Hmm, by the way, if romsignature() needs this probe_kernel_address() >> thing, why doesn't romchecksum()? > > I assume it's all in the same page, but CC'ing Zach is easier than > reading the code 8)
If we're talking hardware pages here; the romchecksum() might be done over an area upto 0xff x 512 = 130560 bytes (there's also an acces to the length byte at rom[2] in probe_roms(). I assume that one's okay if romsignature() ensured that the first page is in).
Rene.
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