From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 27 09:28:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13384 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13376 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:28:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25226; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:27:50 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:27:50 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter Wemm cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM_STACK on the alpha.. check please? In-Reply-To: <199901270945.RAA11288@spinner.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Support for it doesn't appear to be implemented at all- are you asking > > whether someone would make sure it's implemented, or whether (for now) at > > least alpha kernels keep compiling and running if you turn it on as a > > default option? > > It looked to me as though it was. grow_stack() is in vm/*, not in alpha/ > machdep.c. It should compile, but does it work? :-) That's the question. > > sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c:#ifndef VM_STACK > sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c: * know how to implement it for the VM_STACK case. Also, we would > sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c: * non VM_STACK case. > sys/alpha/alpha/trap.c:#ifndef VM_STACK > sys/alpha/alpha/vm_machdep.c:#ifndef VM_STACK Geez. I must have been looking at a stale tree.. > > Add options VM_STACK, recompile and test please. :-) If it boots and > runs, then we can unifdef -DVM_STACK which will solve a few problems. Okay.... Will do.... > > I wish I had an Alpha. :-) If you need ssh access to an alpha, I may be able to help. At the very lesat there's one available for compiling at FreeBSD.org- beast.freebsd.org. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message