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Message-ID: <87d3b2040702010010h7534cc9cte1605e5cecd56025@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:10:10 +0100
From: "Frederic Riss" <frederic.riss@...il.com>
To: "bibo,mao" <bibo_mao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, artiom.myaskouvskey@...el.com,
akpm@...l.org, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack
2007/2/1, bibo,mao <bibo_mao@...ux.intel.com>:
> currently x86_64 kernel does not support efi, efi convention comply to
> MS convention. On ia32 parameter is passed on stack, on x86_64 parameter
> is passed by registers but that is different from x86_64 linux convention.
Is an x86_64 EFI firmware required to have 2 entry points, one x86_64
and one in ia32 mode ? If that's not the case, it means that an i386
kernel won't be able to work correctly on an EFI powered x86_64 box...
> How about adding EFIAPI prefix before efi runtime service function, this
> prefix has different definition in different architecture.
Have you any objection to the second patch I posted? It's not only a
matter of passing arguments, ia64 does quite a lot of things in its
wrapper functions. I can easily imagine that such additional work
could be added in the i386 wrappers if EFI becomes more widely used.
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