linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/16] Add proper definitions for some EFI function pointers.

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Message-ID: <1376402259.27484.21.camel@t520.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:57:39 -0400
From:	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
To:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, matt.fleming@...el.com,
	linux@....linux.org.uk, leif.lindholm@...aro.org,
	dave.martin@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] Add proper definitions for some EFI function
 pointers.

On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> The x86/AMD64 EFI stubs must us a call wrapper to convert between
> the Linux and EFI ABIs, so void pointers are sufficient.  For ARM,
> the ABIs are compatible, so we can directly invoke the function
> pointers.  The functions that are used by the ARM stub are updated
> to match the EFI definitions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
> ---

Tested on arm64.

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>


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