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2014-03-19x86, boot: Create a separate string.h file to provide standard string functionsVivek Goyal
Create a separate arch/x86/boot/string.h file to provide declaration of some of the common string functions. By default memcpy, memset and memcmp functions will default to gcc builtin functions. If code wants to use an optimized version of any of these functions, they need to #undef the respective macro and link against a local file providing definition of undefed function. For example, arch/x86/boot/* code links against copy.S to get memcpy() and memcmp() definitions. arch/86/boot/compressed/* links against compressed/string.c. There are quite a few places in arch/x86/ where these functions are used. Idea is to try to consilidate their declaration and possibly definitions so that it can be reused. I am planning to reuse boot/string.h in arch/x86/purgatory/ and use gcc builtin functions for memcpy, memset and memcmp. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395170800-11059-3-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-04-09x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructureH. Peter Anvin
Impact: new interfaces (not yet used) For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy BIOSes. This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set, perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state. LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>