Re: -mregparm=3 (was Re: [PATCH] i386 do_machine_check() is redundant.

[Helge Hafting]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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