Subject: Re: [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch

From: Tom Rini <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:21:12 -0700

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:52:16AM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> Tom Rini <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> > What we need is
> > something like how we save Motorola residual data or bd_info stuffs
> > (memcpy in platform_init).
>
> Both of those structures are fixed-length and are copied to static variables.
> The bi_recs list has a variable length and can't be copied to a static variable
> (unless we agree on a maximum size for it and make a static buffer of that
> size, but someone other than me has to make that decision), and I don't know
> how to make a dynamic memory allocation that early.

We do it on OF boxes to save the device-tree.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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