From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 30 19:13: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B6437B502; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001001021303.NTLP26082.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@laptop.baldwin.cx>; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:13:03 -0700 Content-Length: 768 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001001072429H.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: From: John Baldwin To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC GENERIC.hints src/sys/ Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org, dfr@nlsystems.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Sep-00 Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: >> > Do you intend to implement {read|write}_eflags() for ia64 port? >> >> It depends on exactly what you want these functions to do. The ia64 >> processor doesn't exactly have an 'eflags' register but it is possible to >> do some similar things to the x86. I have implemented >> {save,disable,restore}_intr() for ia64 which is most of what the rest of >> the kernel needs. > > OK, thanks. I think {save,disable,restore}_intr() would be enough. > Maybe we need ia64 version of wbinvd() in future (maybe different name). You can probably use memory barriers (which are MI via busspace, albeit a pain to arbitrarily use in code it seems from what little docco I've been able to find so far). -- John Baldiwn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message