Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 04:03:42 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: current@freebsd.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: some more on fast bcopy Message-ID: <199605111103.EAA19822@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605111045.UAA23181@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Sat, 11 May 1996 20:45:46 %2B1000)
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* No, you lose control of the FPU when you go to sleep. Something may * clobber the registers or turn off the TS bit. The latter caused the * panic. I see.... * >Um, I assume you are talking about /sys/i386/i386/swtch.s, can you * * No, this is in the copy routine. Copy routine? You mean copyin/copyout? (Sorry, I'm quite clueless.) * gcc is good for translating C to asm :-). My pseudocode should almost * compile to inline code if the macros in npx.c are used. Uhh. ;) Satoshi
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