From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 19 12:58:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAB937B503; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:58:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1JKvJl85720; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:58:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: RE: once again,let me please ask you to at least compile... Cc: jake@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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()'. >> >> > -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message