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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:58:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        jake@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: once again,let me please ask you to at least compile...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010219125834.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102191236420.19274-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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On 19-Feb-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Welcome back john- this is all *very* old news.....
> 
> Right now we're more or less functional in the alpha-kernel front.. I still
> need to add the oncpu/lastcpu stuff to alpha- I've been waiting for a
> response
> from Jason Evans about making these integers (instead of chars) because that
> would make life on the alpha/genassym (or sparc, for that matter) a lot
> easier.

Making p_stat an integer is something we might need to do as well as right now
proc assumes that a 32-bit wordsize in its alighnment.  And also, one thing you
missed is that clear_resched()'ign in userret() as is currently the case is
wrong.  It needs to be in mi_switch() instead, but mroe on that later.
 
>> On 10-Feb-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> > 
>> > the last set of changes were incomplete, yet again, for alpha... you've
>> > removed the want_resched flag- but neglected to update swtch.s.
>> > 
>> > It's pretty clear that while you're madly updating alpha, you're not even
>> > *attempting* to do any kind of compilation, let alone testing. What can
>> > any
>> > of
>> > us hope to gain out of this? Please do either a more complete job, or
>> > don't
>> > bother with the alpha, okay?
>> 
>> No.  Ahem.  I did test this on my alpha.  I missed committing the changes to
>> kern_synch.c however, where 'clear_resched()' needs to be called before
>> 'cpu_switch()' in 'mi_switch()'.
>> 
>> 
> 

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