Date: Fri, 09 Jan 98 19:12:12 -0800 From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. Message-ID: <1382.884401932@dnaunix.pa.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jan 98 19:46:11 EST." <199801100046.TAA20664@hurricane.cs.duke.edu>
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> Its currenly festering because it only runs static binaries. It > only runs static binaries because the current NetBSD/alpha pmap > implementation is limited to a virtual address space of 8Gb. This > prevents dynamic binaries from running because the DU /sbin/loader > wants to be loaded at 0x3ff80000000. See > sys/compat/osf1/README.dynamic for a much more detailed explaination. And I must add for posterity that it wasn't done that way simply because I'm an idiot, but rather because I wanted a working pmap "immediately," and realized that the hp300 pmap and sed would get me very, very close to what i wanted. Working, but not quite as featureful or performant as I might have wanted. Pmap in a day. 8-) Of course, I forgot to implement modify and reference bit emulation (d'oh!) and had to implement that later, but... chris
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