Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:14:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Cc: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removal of kvtop() on i386 Message-ID: <200007190314.VAA76870@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 %2B0200." <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200007171441.IAA22202@berserker.bsdi.com>
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In message <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> Alexander Langer writes: : Thus spake Chuck Paterson (cp@bsdi.com): : : > Has anybody though about how to change this for : > architectures like Sparc where the whole idea of handing : > a physical address to the drivers on a bus doesn't apply, and : > where a unmapping/cache flushing operation must be done : > at io completion. : : Uhm. Is that support for removing kvtop(), against removing kvtop() : or just a questions beside that topic? I'd take it as support :-) : How do other *BSDs do that? They use bus space and bus dma. I'd point you to man pages, but you'd have to be on a netbsd or openbsd system to use them :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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