Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:39:10 +0530 From: "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> To: Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD Message-ID: <AANLkTinnG-c-pp-9GJS1QbvuVu2Nz-rxrmqUnMMaDj7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3F1E3AAE-72B4-4323-9AC3-147066AF50E6@lakerest.net> References: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.com> <20100615.075142.716508926086259279.imp@bsdimp.com> <3F1E3AAE-72B4-4323-9AC3-147066AF50E6@lakerest.net>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> wrote: > Do we want to make sure that the changes > work on a couple of other platforms (sibyte etc)? I can make sure that the compile does not break - but I don't have any way to test further. The changes (except the tlb.c change) really should not break the existing code, but it is always good to test. JC. > On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:51 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >> In message: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.co= m> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> writes: >> : I have volunteered to merge Juli's 64-bit work into HEAD, =A0and >> : 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. =A0I 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) > > --=20 C. Jayachandran c.jayachandran@gmail.com
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