[coreboot] Time for a new project

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun Apr 13 01:06:01 CEST 2008


On 13.04.2008 01:06, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 11/04/08 16:43 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> one simple suggestion. Your types are 32 bits. But the type numbers
>> are things like
>> 1, 2, 3 etc:
>>
>> I think it's worth it to bite the bulet and use more than the 3 lowest
>> bits of the 32 bits, for several reasons:
>> 1. it's easier to detect a bogus type if you use more bits, and bogus
>> type detection is good for bogus problems.
>> 2. With a jtag debugger, it's easier to verify that it really is a
>> type and not just the number '1', etc.
>> 3. use those bits! They're there for a reason :-)
>>
>> So, ignore me if you will, but how about
>> 'CODE'
>> 'DATA'
>> 'BSS '
>> 'NAME'
>> 'NOTE'
>> 'ENTR'
>>     
>
> I dig this.  We will make it so.  I think we should also force all the
> header members to be little endian to avoid issues later on with
> PowerPC.
>   

Ack.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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