Thomas Gleixner wrote:
EFI runtime
services initialization are implemented in efi.c. Some x86_64
specifics are worth noting here. On x86_64, parameters passed to UEFI
firmware services need to follow the UEFI calling convention. For this
purpose, a set of functions named lin2win<x> (<x> is the number of
parameters) are implemented. EFI function calls are wrapped before
calling the firmware service.
Why needs this to be called lin2win? We do not call Windows, we call
EFI services, so please use a naming convention which is related to
the functionality of the code.
Well, presumably EFI inherited the calling convention (as well as
another bunch of stupidity) from that corner.
-hpa
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