Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:20:35 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Huang, Ying wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 10:48 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > EFI uses the Windows x86_64 calling convention. The lin2win may be a > > > more general naming convention that can be used for some other code (the > > > NDISwrapper?) in the future. Do you agree? > > > > I agree not at all. I do not care whether the EFI creators smoked the > > Windows-crackpipe or some other hallucinogen when they decided to use > > this calling convention. We definitely do not want to think about > > NDISwrapper or any other Windows related hackery in the kernel. > > OK, I will change the name to something like lin2efi.
Can we simply use call_efi_XXX(). lin2efi() sounds like a conversion routine, but it is not.
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