Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 14/24] arm/acpi: Prepare EFI system table for Dom0

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.02.16 at 15:25, <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Also it doesn't look very nice to me to (ab)use xz's CRC32 code
>> here; I don't know who has suggested doing so.
>  
> It was suggested by Julien.
> 
> I agree that including ../../../common/xz/crc32.c seems a bit fragile
> but introducing another copy of xz_crc32 seems even worse to me (see
> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=144775375427921&w=2). Maybe you have a
> better suggestion?

Well, at some point there was talk of ARM not wanting to
ExitBootServices() as early as x86 does. In that case there
would be a CRC32 function among the various boot services
ones.

The other option would be to have a generic crc32() function,
and maybe make xz use it.

Jan


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