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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 +0200
From:      alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer)
To:        Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: removal of kvtop() on i386
Message-ID:  <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007171441.IAA22202@berserker.bsdi.com>; from cp@bsdi.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:41:00AM -0600
References:  <200007171441.IAA22202@berserker.bsdi.com>

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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
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