From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 9:42:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mout1.silyn-tek.de (mout1.silyn-tek.de [194.25.165.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2591D37BA9A for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from [192.168.32.33] (helo=mx1.silyn-tek.de) by mout1.silyn-tek.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13EDy4-00014Y-00; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 +0200 Received: from p3e9c116d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([62.156.17.109] helo=neutron.cichlids.com) by mx1.silyn-tek.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13EDy2-00052r-00; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:07 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F71CAB91; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:43:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 69C9714A62; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 +0200 To: Chuck Paterson Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removal of kvtop() on i386 Message-ID: <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <200007171441.IAA22202@berserker.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200007171441.IAA22202@berserker.bsdi.com>; from cp@bsdi.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:41:00AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Chuck Paterson (cp@bsdi.com): > Has anybody though about how to change this for > architectures like Sparc where the whole idea of handing > a physical address to the drivers on a bus doesn't apply, and > where a unmapping/cache flushing operation must be done > at io completion. Uhm. Is that support for removing kvtop(), against removing kvtop() or just a questions beside that topic? How do other *BSDs do that? Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message