Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/boot: Introduce the setup_indirect

2019-10-01 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 08:56:44AM -0700, h...@zytor.com wrote: > On July 4, 2019 9:36:11 AM PDT, Daniel Kiper wrote: [...] > >diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h > >b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h > >index b05318112452..17fa6ad6 100644 > >--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/a

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/boot: Introduce the setup_indirect

2019-07-12 Thread hpa
On July 4, 2019 9:36:11 AM PDT, Daniel Kiper wrote: >The setup_data is a bit awkward to use for extremely large data >objects, >both because the setup_data header has to be adjacent to the data >object >and because it has a 32-bit length field. However, it is important that >intermediate stages of