On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:25 AM François Ozog <francois.o...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > "packed" at least works otherwise no network protocol would be operating > as expected. > that is a very common misconception. C code for networks existed for decades before packed existed. packed does not exist in plan 9 compilers to this day and they work fine without it. The use of packed almost always indicated non-portable assumptions or just plain bad design. Let's stop doing that. Well, some HOBs can be like that because when you are configuring the DRAM > controllers and the like, each byte on data and instructions count. So > those can't be anything but compact binary objects. As we grow up in the > layers, HOBs may evolve. Natural candidate for embedded world is Device > Tree. But why not CBOR or things like that. > I think device tree would be fine. And defining a marshaling rule from device tree to compact structs for DRAM controllers is a solved problem. Device tree is a FAR better choice than HOBs. HOBs were a mistake from the time they were created. _______________________________________________ boot-architecture mailing list boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/boot-architecture
