[coreboot] [PATCH] more intelligent cbfs walker

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Georgi [mailto:patrick at georgi-clan.de]
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:20 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] more intelligent cbfs walker
> 
> Am 25.04.2009 17:10, schrieb Myles Watson:
> > Have you seen this happen? If so delete is broken. Delete zeroes freed
> > space.
> >
> Can we be sure to have only one implementation that writes cbfs?

I hope so, but you're right it's not guaranteed right now.
 
> I've seen quite some weird stuff happen (for example, the first version
> of the patch should _always_ end up in an infinite loop, but it didn't
> at first), and given that this part of the code can make the difference
> between "works" and "hangs with black screen", I'll rather be paranoid
> about these issues.

Well when you put it that way :)  My only concern is that if we get too
paranoid it gets harder to maintain and test all of the code paths.  Thanks
for your patch.  It was definitely an improvement.

Myles