[LinuxBIOS] patch: fix filo dependency on memory being zero

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Oct 4 07:44:15 CEST 2007


* ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> [071003 22:40]:
> On 10/3/07, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch makes qemu work again on v3. FILO was depending on bss
> > being zero, which is not all that safe in embedded. It's better to
> > zero things you are depending on being zero.
> >
> > ron
> >

> This patch makes qemu work again on v3. FILO was depending on bss being zero, which is not all that safe in embedded. It's better to zero things you are depending on being zero.
> Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>

Let me guess.. is this with PAYLOAD_PREPARSE_ELF enabled?

What else is different in "embedded" when running LinuxBIOS?

Stefan

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