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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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J=F6rn Engel writes:

> 25 parameters=3F  If you tell me which drugs were involved in this co=
de,
> I know what to stay away from.

You really need to ask the firmware architects that, since this is
basically a single firmware call.

Mind you, since a lot of the parameters are used to return individual
bytes or half-words, which are then put into structures, it might be
better to pass the pointers to the structures and let the wrapper put
the values straight into the structures.

Paul.