From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 14:14:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481A11065670; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:14:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@lakerest.net) Received: from lakerest.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:240:585:2:213:d4ff:fef3:2d8d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72128FC16; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.69] (pool-70-109-12-150.atl.dsl-w.verizon.net [70.109.12.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by lakerest.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5FEEbdU018354 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rrs@lakerest.net) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=simple/simple; d=lakerest.net; s=mail; t=1276611284; h=Cc:Message-Id:From:To:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References: X-Mailer; b=TWc5Bk6tlTCD9YVlRDGhuBzH2T4To6VzDN+puUwLMwiD+hMlAaMRmJr 2h4ZB8z9a02kcWKllSGgOYVcHrfdVaQ== Message-Id: <7D8CB554-C1A9-48AA-99EF-136CCD19619B@lakerest.net> From: Randall Stewart To: "Jayachandran C." In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:32 -0400 References: <20100615.075142.716508926086259279.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:14:48 -0000 I would think small verifiable changes would be good.. that way if something does break (and we miss it) we can more easily figure out what it was... R On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jayachandran C. wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:21 PM, M. Warner Losh > wrote: >> In message: > > >> "Jayachandran C." 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. > > Then, would you want to do it this way, or one big merge from Juli's > branch would be okay? > > JC. > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell)