Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:02:48 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: jmallett@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD Message-ID: <3F1E3AAE-72B4-4323-9AC3-147066AF50E6@lakerest.net> In-Reply-To: <20100615.075142.716508926086259279.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.com> <20100615.075142.716508926086259279.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Do we want to make sure that the changes work on a couple of other platforms (sibyte etc)? R On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:51 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.com > > > "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> writes: > : I have volunteered to merge Juli's 64-bit work into HEAD, and > : hopefully get it to work on XLR too. The tree > : (http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/jmallett/octeon) has quite a bit > of > : changes, so I would like to do this over multiple changesets and > : without breaking the current o32 code. > : > : The first batch of changes are attached (also at > : http://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/jmallett-merge/), the patches > are: > : > : libc-asm.patch - change libc assembly code to use macros which > work on o32/n64 > : libc-other.patch - makecontext implemenation, and other cleanup > : ld.so.patch - change dynamic loader assembly code to use macros > : tlb-to-c.patch - move TLB operations to C, update TLB operations API > : > : I've tested this on XLR, but there is a chance that this might break > : other platforms. So please let me know your comments on both the > : patches and the merge process. > > I've reviewed these changes with Juli as she was committing them to > her branch. I think they are good to go. > > Warner > > > : The future patches (if everything goes well), will do the PTE_ > flag to > : PG_ flag renaming in Juli's tree, then the actual n32/n64 changes. > : > : Thanks, > : JC. > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell)
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