[coreboot] cbfs XIP patch

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue May 5 09:58:31 CEST 2009


On 05.05.2009 06:55, ron minnich wrote:
> There is actually no change to the find code in src/lib, in fact; that
> code also walks all of rom, in strides of 'align'.

Didn't we decide in v3 that walking all of ROM was a bad idea after that
method (instead of skipping ahead based on headers) triggered too many
false positives? Remember funny constructs like

/* I hope the compiler does not optimize this */
char *magic = "L" + "ARCHIVE"

What did I miss?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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