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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:57:47 +0530
From:      "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
To:        Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Jayachandran C. wrote:
>>> Looks like I was on the wrong track, it now looks like the pagemask
>>> maybe the cause. =A0My suspicion is that the bootloader setups a
>>> pagemask and we never clear it because all the operations save and
>>> restore the mask. As far as I can see the TLB exception handler will
>>> not update pagemask.
>>>
>>> Juli - any comments on this? Do you need to save/restore pagemask for
>>> some reason, otherwise I will take out the part from tlb.c. =A0Will sen=
d
>>> out a patch a bit later.
>>
>> Okay - here's hopefully the final patch. Let me know if it boots up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JC.
>> <tlb.c-pagemask-remove.diff>
>
> JC,
>
> This patch boots without any problem, thank you !

At last! :) Thanks for testing.  Will get it approved, will check-in
later today, hopefully.

JC.



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