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From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
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Subject: Re: [TESTING]: boot2 compilation with -mregparm=3
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:41:04PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch:
> > 
> > 
> >         http://lev.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/boot2-mregparm.patch
> > 
> > 
> > makes boot2 to be compiled with -mregparm=3 (which shrinks it
> > some). It changes CFLAGS to include -mregparm=3 and also
> > rewrites sio.S to use register passing.
> > 
> > This survived my testing in qemu and jhb@s review.
> 
> Works for me on amd64 with gcc, but I don't use either
> a serial console or gptboot/zfsboot.

thank you for testing, although I really need someone to test
this on serial console {gpt,zfs}boot

it seems to work for me and fail for the other tester so I
really dont know what to think

roman