Re: [PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack

[Frédéric Riss]

Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 Ã 11:10 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit :
> > This patch fixes the issue for x86, but the file is also used by IA64. I
> > would have used asmlinkage to force arguments on the stack, but it has a
> > special meaning on IA64, thus I used a raw regparm(0) GCC attribute.
> > This attribute is documented only for x86, I hope it has no side effect
> > on other archs.
> 
> hm, this sounds like a fairly serious problem.  Has this been runtime
> tested on ia64 and x86_64>

Not by me, the only EFI box I've access to is my Mac Mini.

Fred.

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