the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 7b681c5926d3699b33c936e34a8176833a03eaf2 Author: Mathias Krause minipli@googlemail.com Date: Tue Feb 7 19:03:29 2017 +0100
libpayload: x86/main - propagate return value of main()
According to coreboot’s payload API [1], the called payload should be able to return a value via %eax. Support this by changing the prototype of start_main() and pass on the return value of main() to the caller instead of discarding it.
[1] https://www.coreboot.org/Payload_API
Change-Id: I8442faea19cc8e04487092f8e61aa4e5cba3ba76 Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause minipli@googlemail.com Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/18334 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org
See https://review.coreboot.org/18334 for details.
-gerrit