x86 weirdness

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 31 13:07:42 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:16:26PM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Hey Sascha,
> 
> 
> There seem to be two memset calls, that could be problematic. Both
> should be easily replaceable with for-loops (like I already did by
> the first).
> 
> We just have to be very careful to not call any functions from
> outside the boot dir (expect for the main barebox entry point).

This is probably a good idea anyway since the bss is not cleared at this
stage.

> 
> Don't you love the weird x86 world :-)

I'm glad that most of the time I don't have to care about x86 ;)

Sascha

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