Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:31:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <3C3A13B3.112E8A0B@mindspring.com> References: <3C37E559.B011DF29@vigrid.com> <20020106032709.A82406@elvis.mu.org> <3C381B48.AADDCA2B@mindspring.com> <20020106113847.A15885@cicely8.cicely.de> <20020107015228.E39321@locore.ca> <3C396554.9B6A9053@mindspring.com> <20020107152434.B19289@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:07:32AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The "flushw" is not enough. > > > > The following paper discusses the original implementation of the > > "liblwp" code on SunOS 4.x: > > > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/compiler/papers.d/thread-regwin.html > > It's uses a flushw emulation, because it had to deal with CPUs which > don't have a flushw instruction. > Well in fact it's wrong from the 1991 standpoint to name this > emulation, because I asume sparcv9 wasn't there, but the result is > the same. I guess you are saying FreeBSD will never support non-64-bit SPARC, or SPARC below SPARC 9. If that's the plan, then that's OK (though I will probably still hack up a version for my IPC, particularly now that you have SPARC booting multiuser). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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