On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > As table content is likely to change over time,
> > the following measures are taken to simplify
> > cross-version migration:
> > - All tables besides the RSDP are packed in a single FW CFG entry.
> > This entry size is currently 23K. We round it up to 64K
> > to avoid too much churn there.
>
> Does it need to be that way? I'd prefer to have one fw_cfg entry per table.
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
It's better I think. The advantages are:
- when we add more tables we don't break cross-version
migration compatibility
- we have limited number of files, this way we won't
run out of them
what are advantages of file per table?
