Subject: Re: C calling conventions for PowerPC/OF client interface
To: Rob Ballantyne <ballanty@sfu.ca>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/22/1999 18:56:54
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Rob Ballantyne wrote:
> I was poking around the gcc source looking for the C calling
> conventions
> when I found a reference to "System V Application Binary Interface
> PowerPC Processor Supplement." This document does describe calling
> conventions, as well as other ABI information. Is this the correct
> source of calling conventions for NetBSD/macppc? If not where might
> I find that information?
I think so.
> On another note I was looking at the ofwboot.c code trying to
> understand how it makes use of the OF client interface. Is everything
> required to interface to OF in there? In particular I'd just like
> to know how to write to the screen using using OF as a client.
the boot loader gets a standard in and a standard out, and goes from
there. :-)
Take care,
Bill