[PATCH] [POWERPC] Wire up some more syscalls

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon May 14 14:15:37 EST 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 22:55 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Just out of interest, what makes a syscall COMPAT_SYS_SPU vs  
> SYSCALL_SPU?

It's the same as the difference between COMPAT_SYS and SYSCALL.

The _SPU suffix just means that the SPU can use the (native) syscall. 

The COMPAT_ prefix means that there's a compat function to call instead
of calling the native one directly for 32-bit code.

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dwmw2




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