Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:28:40 +0200 From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: removal of kvtop() on i386 Message-ID: <20000714122840.A82879@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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Hello! I recently wanted to port the if_ed driver to alpha. FreeBSD/alpha still misses kvtop(), so I implemented it. However, bde told me, that the whole function kvtop() is wrong, since "0" is a legitimate physical address and therefore the panic is misplaced. That means, kvtop() is obsolete. Before I continue porting the driver, I'd like to have this issue resolved. Please take a look at this (kinda old) patch: - Remove pmap_kextract from pmap.h for alpha and add it to pmap.c - remove pmap_kextract from vm_machdep.c for i386 and add it to pmap.c - change all kvtop() to pmap_kextract() in the src. http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/remove-kvtop.diff I received no further comments about this patch from bde, and dillon didn't answer to an email concerning this. Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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