From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JEkzE-0002ud-K9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEkzC-0002sh-Q5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEkzA-0002pe-UP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEkzA-0002pV-RV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:44 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEkzA-0002aG-Gt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:44 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JEkz7-0004st-FA; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:33:43 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JEkxV-0000GN-Au; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:32:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:32:01 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080115123201.GA924@thorin> References: <20080112031444.GA30703@thorin> <87hchf2ulp.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080115120643.GD31275@thorin> <87tzlf1dml.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tzlf1dml.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:33:47 -0000 On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:23:30PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > > OFW expects %eax to be the first parameter in callbacks. Other than this, > > I assumed -mregparm is a useful size optimization. Is that not it? Why > > do we have it on i386-pc then? > > On i386-pc the size restrictions are more important. On OF the binary > is loaded from the filesystem. We need at least -mregparm=1. Does it make sense to move from 3 to 1 ? I think it's better to stay at 3 for consistency. > >> Why do you do this? Isn't this information available in native byte order? > > > > See my other mail about IEEE-1275 and endianess. > > Which subject? "[PATCH] fix endianess in IEEE-1275 integer properties" -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)