
17 Oct
2013
17 Oct
'13
8:24 a.m.
Hi all,
In our bootloader based off of 2013.07 we make extensive use of the flat device tree. In profiling our bootloader in our simulator I found that the function eating up the most time is fdt_next_tag. Looking at it, especially fdt_offset_ptr, it looks like there is a lot of room for improvement especially in the skip name section.
Some of the checks in fdt_offset_ptr also look useless, such as if ((offset + len) < offset) which will always be false, or if (p + len < p)
len is always positive.
-Aaron
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Aaron Williams
Software Engineer
Cavium, Inc.
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