From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
pmac@au1.ibm.com, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] ehea firmware interface based on Anton Blanchard's new hvcall interface
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:53:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159239231.5462.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45186F25.9000700@garzik.org>
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> patch does not apply.
>
> also, it would seem like varargs would be appropriate here.
Not really... these are hypervisor calls, their calling convention is
not varargs, thus we would need some conversion layer if using them,
with possible performance loss (it's also hard to do right as we are
passing args by registers, not stack).
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-26 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 13:50 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] ehea firmware interface based on Anton Blanchard's new hvcall interface Jan-Bernd Themann
2006-09-26 0:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-26 2:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-27 16:47 Jan-Bernd Themann
2006-09-27 21:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-27 22:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-27 22:30 ` Jeff Garzik
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