Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:15:02 +0530 From: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Willows Message-ID: <199602051245.AA155974303@fakir.india.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 12:47:16 %2B0100." <9602051147.AA25141@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
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gj> I didn't think of looking there. I think that the X server uses LDTs, I'm curious about this. Does the X server really need specific LDT support on FreeBSD? AFAIK we need access to the ioports on the machine (thus an IOPL change is in order) and mmaping of framebuffer memory on some of the cards (which is standard, taking care to make the FB non-cacheable). However there shouldn't be a need for anything more machine specific than that. On this topic; do we support the P5's 1MB page size? This could reduce the number of TLB misses when mmaping the video framebuffer (1-4MB typ) and when the CPU does typical drawing (bresenham lines get hit particularly by tlb stepping). Even the accelarators which use sparse addressing of their registers (Mach64, P9000, P9100 etc) this could be a win. Koshy
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