[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/2] lsi53c895a boot support

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Jul 20 14:47:16 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >> +    /* FIXME: probably not the best idea to have this on the stack ... */
> >> +    u32 script[] = {
> > 
> > Several places in the code DMA to the stack already (usb-ehci,
> > usb-uhci, ata).
> 
> My concern isn't DMA'ing to the stack, but the size of the script and
> possible stack overruns.  But maybe it is a moot point with the stack
> switching added to seabios recently.

Disk access code will have at least a 4K stack in 32bit mode and a 2K
stack in 16bit mode.

-Kevin



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