Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] x86/boot: Supply boot_param in rdi instead of rsi from startup_64()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 2025-06-23 09:29, Khalid Ali wrote:
> > This was never intended to conform to the C ABI, why is it necessary
> > to change it?
>
> Technically speaking, you are right, however that doesn't mean we can put something where
> ever we like. We came from C code which is bootloader and we end up to C code, so we should
> comply the ABI here too.

This is also invoked by some external bootloaders that boot the ELF 
image directly, even though this is strongly discouraged.

Therefore this patchset is NAKed with extreme prejudice.

	-hpa