Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:43:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, brandon@cold.org, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705070343.WAA16303@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199705070210.TAA23402@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "May 6, 97 07:10:10 pm"
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> On Tue, 06 May 1997 20:51:23 -0500 > Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, couldn't we use a large part of the NetBSD/alpha > > machine dependant code? I would think that this would significantly > > speed up a port.. > > ...if you do that, you'll probably have to use a large part of the > NetBSD machine-independent code, too... since the MD code uses MI > facilities, while the MI facilities also rely on MD support. > Actually, we won't need the old VM code... I don't think that porting PMAP is going to be much of a problem (since it looks like DG will likely be doing that.) The bus interface code issues will be interesting, and I would think that those who are going to do that part of the port will produce the proper technical solution. John
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