Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] ehea firmware interface based on AntonBlanchard's new hvcall interface

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> patch does not apply.
> 
> also, it would seem like varargs would be appropriate here.

Not really... these are hypervisor calls, their calling convention is
not varargs, thus we would need some conversion layer if using them,
with possible performance loss (it's also hard to do right as we are
passing args by registers, not stack).

Ben.


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