Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:00:26 -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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Alan Cox wrote: >>> Again, these are wrappers to access EFI and not Windows. >> 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? > > The SYSV description is wrong as well. SYSV has no calling convention. I > think you mean iABI or iBCS2 ? > > Whats wrong with following the pattern of other calls like syscall(...) > and just having eficall() ?
Either that (which is basically his lin2win6), or use wrapper-generators like we used to do for system calls -- the latter will produce more efficient code. I don't think it matters.
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