[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] LBv3: fix printk format warnings

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Aug 10 20:45:33 CEST 2007


ron minnich wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>>> This makes sense too. What are the drawbacks? :)
>>>
>>>       
>> One of four registers gets permanently reserved. The code gets bigger
>> and about 10% slower.
>>     
>
> but linuxbios is infinitely fast, and hence takes 0 time.
>
> 110% * 0 is 0. Therefore I prove that it is fine :-)
>
> ron
>
>   

The speed is no issue in an O(1) environment, sure. The size might be.
Award & Co have an 8K bootblock. We're planning on going from 16 to 64k now?

With tomorrows flashes getting bigger, we might not have that problem
forever.


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