From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 2 13:50:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A754F150AF; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA00965; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Alan Cox Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP users (important) In-Reply-To: <19990402124153.H14114@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now, if you're not using Luoqi's patches to enable multithreaded > address spaces, you can stop reading here. If you are, you'll > need to patch i386/i386/swtch.s as follows: My suggestion is that we apply Luoqi's %fs patch to -current rather than have to track these changes manually.. Luoqi? Have you had any -ve feedback on this? (and what would be the equivalent ALPHA patch?) I can imagine the original PDE trick working on the alpha but they don't have a spare register sitting around.. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message