Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:28:40 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: -mregparm=3 (was Re: [PATCH] i386 do_machine_check() is redundant. |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Quite correct - even after recompiling the sourced portions of the NVidia > driver, it dies a horrid death on 'insmod' when the closed-source portion > passes a parameter on the stack and the open side expects the value in a > register, and follows the register value to a quick death.... > Nvidia can fix this easily. Either by having several versions of their closed-source thing, or by having a open "interface" that uses nvidia's calling convention for talking to their proprietary binary code, and whatever the kernel uses for talking to the kernel. That's the price of binary modules - One extra level of indirection, or a bunch of different modules. Of course there are plenty of other cards without such problems.
Helge Hafting
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