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Re: the bouyer-quota2 branch



On Thu Mar 10 2011 at 20:29:58 +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > (Just to explain the rationale for this nomenclatural crisis, yesterday
> > I discovered that the changed signature broke some assumptions about
> > syscall compat I'd made in makesyscalls.sh, and that caused the script
> > to fail in a very-scratchingly way.  I could just change makesyscalls.sh,
> > but since I'd had made that assumption, it's possible others have too)
> 
> BTW, when i changed reboot(2) i added a char * to the signature.
> (this was in 1996?) how does this affect your compat assumptions?

It doesn't affect them because i'm not interested in compiling new code
against oreboot.  So theoretically yes, in reality no.  I care about
the latter ;)

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