Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Note: the following discussion applies to this patch.
This patch is basically limited. It is mostly useful for newly-created
LARs.
On Feb 9, 2008 1:06 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
> If I read the code correctly, the command will try to fill the first
> occurrence of free space in the lar, not the biggest one. That means
> we
> might have to call it multiple times.
hmm. I obviously did not think of this.
> And a general problem with the code: If it finds the offset of the
> first
> empty area, it checks whether the area is big enough. If not, it does
> not search for another empty area, but returns instead with an error.
Actually, I think as written it is broken for the general case of lots
of empty spots. It should just look for the room left from start of
empty space to next LAR header. It's just that I have never had a LAR
that has more than one block of empty space, and that empty space is
always at the gap before the bootblock.
How about this. I'd like to commit now, and then fix this later, as I
really need this code in there for speed and it works fine with all
"fresh" images built with v3.
> Should we really call this "zerofill"?
"emptyfill"? I'll let it go for now but you make good point.
> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
OK, this is clearly a work in progress but even in this form it is so
useful I'm going to commit it with a note, "This needs more work", and
with luck someone else will improve it once we need it improved -- the
basic structure is there.
Index: util/lar/stream.c
Add hlen (header len) and maxsize (max size left in lar) functions.
Index: util/lar/lib.h
Add function prototypes and new ZEROFILL enum.
Index: util/lar/lar.c
Add -z option and command support.
git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/repository/coreboot-v3@583 f3766cd6-281f-0410-b1cd-43a5c92072e9
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