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From: "Frederic Riss" <frederic.riss@gmail.com>
To: "bibo,mao" <bibo_mao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com,
	akpm@osdl.org, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:10:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3b2040702010010h7534cc9cte1605e5cecd56025@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C1513F.1000706@linux.intel.com>

2007/2/1, bibo,mao <bibo_mao@linux.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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-01  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-30 19:01 Frédéric Riss
2007-01-30 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-30 19:16   ` Frédéric Riss
2007-01-30 19:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-01-30 20:41   ` Frédéric Riss
2007-02-01  2:32     ` bibo,mao
2007-02-01  8:10       ` Frederic Riss [this message]
2007-02-02  1:32         ` bibo,mao

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