Re: [PATCH] bring initial context to a known state

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote:
> Hell[o]
> 
> > When GRUB starts initial_context is in an unknown state.  This can lead to
> > GRUB detecting bogus variables from it.  Attached patch zeroes that struct
> > during initialisation to avoid that.
> 
> This change broken command line argument handling for ieee1275.
> Arguments are read by grub_machine_init() in this case and zeroing is
> done just after that.
> 
> I guess it should be placed before grub_machine_init() to avoid this problem.

Uhm.. Marco pointed out that it's in the ELF standard that memory is zeroed
before load.  So there isn't really a problem, and my issue was just found in
an inconsistent situation when playing with LB self-boot.

Let's kill this thread.

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Robert Millan

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