[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/5] pci: 64bit support
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Feb 22 15:15:03 CET 2012
On 02/22/12 14:38, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:55:53AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> I haven't really had a chance to review it. Initial thoughts were
>>>> - on patch 1, I'm not sure how that will impact stack usage which
>>>> is quite tight when running in 16bit mode;
>>
>> Stack usage doesn't grow much I think. struct pci_dev becomes larger,
>> but I doubt you can find those on the stack. Some local variables move
>> from u32 to u64. But doesn't run this code in 32bit anyway?
>
> I was referring to the changes to dprintf, which does run in 16bit
> mode. There is a script tools/checkstack.py that can calculate the
> 16bit stack usages.
Ah. That patch raises the stack usage indeed, even without printing
64bit hex numbers ...
cheers,
Gerd
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