Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750732AbWIZCzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:55:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750736AbWIZCzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:55:45 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:5863 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750732AbWIZCzo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:55:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] ehea firmware interface based on Anton Blanchard's new hvcall interface From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann , Thomas Klein , Jan-Bernd Themann , netdev , pmac@au1.ibm.com, linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Christoph Raisch , Marcus Eder In-Reply-To: <45186F25.9000700@garzik.org> References: <200609251550.01514.ossthema@de.ibm.com> <45186F25.9000700@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:53:51 +1000 Message-Id: <1159239231.5462.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 18 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/