From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 23:46:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01245 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01238 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23200; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:46:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd023180; Tue Jul 14 23:46:44 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07711; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:46:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807150646.XAA07711@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Wrong comment in pmap_bootstrap() about virtual_avail? To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:46:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, bf20761@binghamton.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807150011.RAA24922@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jul 14, 98 05:11:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I can't help but wonder why you are looking at this code fragment...it > is highly esoteric for most anyone who intends to do development in the > FreeBSD kernel. Maybe he's proting FreeBSD to the relatively high powered, yet very inexpensive MIPS chip based systems that are out there. 8-) 8-). Wishful thinking, I know... Still, are you aware that the "Cobalt" thin server platform, running MIPS Linux, has hardware about 1/3 as expensive as comparable Intel hardware? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message