[coreboot] [PATCH] more Kconfig default fixes

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Oct 15 14:28:18 CEST 2009


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 15.10.2009 13:04, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
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>> ron minnich wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> So I guess the question is how should we make sure the stack and heap are
>>>> sized correctly.  Using malloc to allocate the memory for lzma makes sense,
>>>> but it is used in CAR too, so that complicates our decision.
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>>> lzma decompressor gets a void * from the caller. Caller, if CAR, uses
>>> on-stack pointer. RAM code can, if desired,
>>> use malloc'ed memory?
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>> We never call lzma while in CAR. Now that would be kind of silly, would it?
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> Well, originally ulmza() was designed to be runnable in CAR on the OLPC.
>   

What for? Decompressing to cache? This sounds a bit odd, with a 16kB
scratchpad, and only 128KB cache.

Stefan




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