On 11 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Basically byte code seems much more optional than a magic function you can call. But in the practical it should be possible to fix the firmware, and reflash if we did provide callbacks. I just like to err as far as possible on the side of caution.
and byte code you can call is probably bad for keeping the processor cache, TLBs, etc. nice and current.
My preference is to provide no code that is run after the OS loads, and just to specify some static table entries. The rest is essentially a fallback position.
yep.
ron