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Currently, we support mixed mode by casting all boot time firmware calls to 64-bit explicitly on native 64-bit systems, and to 32-bit on 32-bit systems or 64-bit systems running with 32-bit firmware. Due to this explicit awareness of the bitness in the code, we do a lot of casting even on generic code that is shared with other architectures, where mixed mode does not even exist. This casting leads to loss of coverage of type checking by the compiler, which we should try to avoid. So instead of distinguishing between 32-bit vs 64-bit, distinguish between native vs mixed, and limit all the nasty casting and pointer mangling to the code that actually deals with mixed mode. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224151025.32482-10-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.