[BUG] flash failure with CONFIG_RTAS_FLASH=m

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Fri Jan 5 11:04:06 EST 2007


On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:49:51 -0600 Nathan Lynch <ntl at pobox.com> wrote:

> The problem doesn't happen if CONFIG_RTAS_FLASH=y.
> 
> What's the best way to fix this?  Should rtas_firmware_flash_list be
> defined in some non-modular code and exported?

Makes sense to me.

You could allocate it dynamically really early (i.e. lmb_alloc) since
that's the only allocator that we can give limits to where in the
address range it can allocate. It seems to be overkill in this case
though, it's just a page worth of data.


-Olof



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