[PATCH] Removing inline asm from ibmveth.c - commit

Santiago Leon santil at us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 5 08:57:46 EST 2003


Hi everybody...

If there are no objections, I'm going to commit this to 2.4 bk on
Thursday...

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Santiago A. Leon
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On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:09, Santiago Leon wrote:
> There was a discussion in another list because someone added inline
> assembly to ibmveth.c... This is my fix for plpar_hcall_8arg_2ret() so
> that the inline assembly won't be necesary... I just added two lines of
> assembly to pull the 9th and 10th parameters from the stack into R11 and
> R12... Which is what the rest of the code expects.
>
> The patch includes the whole plpar_hcall_8arg_2ret() because it was
> deleted by a previous patch...
>
> The patch is against the 2.4 bk tree...
>
> Let me know what you guys think...
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> Santiago A. Leon
> Power Linux Development
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