[OpenBIOS] PATCH v2: Rework CIF interface to handle parameters in reverse order

[Laurent Vivier]

Le dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 22:46 +0100, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
> Le dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 13:30 +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Here is a second version of the patch which attempts to reverse the 
> > argument order of the CIF Forth words so that they can be called 
> > correctly from both Forth and C.
> > 
> > The patch is fairly straightforward; probably the only unexpected part 
> > is the need to rename the existing /openprom/client-services "claim" and 
> > "release" words to "cif-claim" and "cif-release" respectively. This is 
> > because we need to use the "claim" and "release" words in 
> > forth/system/ciface.fs to reverse the argument order before calling the 
> > real underlying words.
> > 
> > I've tested this on a FC12 PPC CD as well as my SPARC64 Milax CD and 
> > with this version of the patch, the CIF words are called correctly in 
> > both cases. I'd like to apply this reasonably soon, so please can people 
> > test on their setups to make sure it doesn't break anything?
> 
> I doesn't work with:
> 
> debian-40r6-powerpc-netinst.iso
> debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso
> Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso
> Fedora-11-Preview-ppc-netinst.iso
> openSUSE-11.1-NET-ppc.iso
> OpenBSD 4.6

Sorry, I didn't test the good patch. V2 works well with all of them.

Regards,
Laurent
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