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Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:32:01 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:23:30PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > OFW expects %eax to be the first parameter in callbacks. Other than this,
> > I assumed -mregparm is a useful size optimization. Is that not it? Why
> > do we have it on i386-pc then?
>
> On i386-pc the size restrictions are more important. On OF the binary
> is loaded from the filesystem.
We need at least -mregparm=1. Does it make sense to move from 3 to 1 ? I
think it's better to stay at 3 for consistency.
> >> Why do you do this? Isn't this information available in native byte order?
> >
> > See my other mail about IEEE-1275 and endianess.
>
> Which subject?
"[PATCH] fix endianess in IEEE-1275 integer properties"
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Robert Millan
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