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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:40:47 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.cpu.mk
Message-ID:  <20060721234047.GA14618@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <44C11E6C.3070302@cs.rice.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:35:24PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> >Alan I'm curious, for you what is the rush?
>
> It complicates my efforts to maintain and improve the virtual memory 
> system when I can only compile-test changes on five out of the six 
> architectures in CVS without jumping through hoops.  In other words, the 
> lack of a tool-chain in CVS is becoming a drag, not just on those with 
> particular interest in arm, but the project as a whole.  For example. 
> after consulting with grehan@ and marcel@, I decided that the best way 
> to finish the PG_NX support on amd64 involved a pmap interface change, 
> which means changing the arm pmap as well as the five that compile 
> out-of-the-box.

Thanks for the replay, I just wondered if there was a special need for
your VM, etc. work.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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