From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 13 11:10:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B1837B401; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from net2.gendyn.com (gate2.gendyn.com [204.60.171.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0C343E4A; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from [153.11.11.3] (helo=ebnext01) by net2.gendyn.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 18C2u8-0001Mg-00; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:10:24 -0500 Received: from clcrtr.gdeb.com ([153.11.109.11]) by ebnext01 with SMTP id gADJANLQ030462; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:10:23 -0500 Received: from vigrid.com (gpz.clc.gdeb.com [192.168.3.12]) by clcrtr.gdeb.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gACLhLl39632; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:43:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Message-ID: <3DD2A3AD.D6ECFD0@vigrid.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:10:37 -0500 From: Daniel Eischen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.9 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [PATCH] *context() as syscalls Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've got a patch that makes {get,set,swap}context() system calls, removing them from libc. I've built and tested an i386 kernel, but can only build an alpha kernel (a buildworld is in progress now). Can someone test an alpha kernel with this patch? For sparc, ia64, and powerpc, I just returned ENOSYS for now. It shouldn't break any builds and can be implemented later. Thanks, -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message