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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code (Linux Tiny)
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
>> Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:54:30 -0800,
>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> b) would be my first choice, and yes, it would be a good thing to
>>> have a generalized mechanism for this. For the registrant, it's
>>> pretty easy: just add a macro that adds a pointer to a named
>>> section. We then need a way to get the base address and length of
>>> each such section in order to be able to execute each function in
>>> sequence.
>> You'll find below a tentative patch that implements this. Tuple
>> (vendor, pointer to cpu_dev structure) are stored in a
>> x86cpuvendor.init section of the kernel, which is then read by the
>> generic CPU code in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c to fill the
>> cpu_devs[] function.
>
> thanks, i've picked this up into x86.git. It all looks much cleaner and
> much more maintainable now. Peter, any objections?
>

Looks great to me.

-hpa
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