Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:28:27 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support |
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Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> EFI runtime >> services initialization are implemented in efi.c. Some x86_64 >> specifics are worth noting here. On x86_64, parameters passed to UEFI >> firmware services need to follow the UEFI calling convention. For this >> purpose, a set of functions named lin2win<x> (<x> is the number of >> parameters) are implemented. EFI function calls are wrapped before >> calling the firmware service. > > Why needs this to be called lin2win? We do not call Windows, we call > EFI services, so please use a naming convention which is related to > the functionality of the code. >
Well, presumably EFI inherited the calling convention (as well as another bunch of stupidity) from that corner.
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