[RFC] "indirect" DCR access (40x, BookE)

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:25:23AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> Look in u-boot.  They have some user commands that allow
> reading/writing dcr's.  These commands are written with self modifying
> code, I would recommend that we reuse that.
>

I would not.

Kumar, I'm aware of code in u-boot :).
Did you read this code comment ?

It clearly states that is not efficient.
It may be OK for a boot loader, because nobody cares much about it
performance.

Let me repeat my point. I _do_ know how to write self-modifying code,
I don't _like_ this approach mostly because it's not very efficient.

Eugene.

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