Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD

[Randall Stewart]

Do we want to make sure that the changes
work on a couple of other platforms (sibyte etc)?

R
On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:51 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_ at mail.gmail.com 
> >
>            "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> writes:
> : I have volunteered to merge Juli's 64-bit work into HEAD,  and
> : hopefully get it to work on XLR too. The tree
> : (http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/jmallett/octeon) has quite a bit  
> of
> : changes, so I would like to do this over multiple changesets and
> : without breaking the current o32 code.
> :
> : The first batch of changes are attached (also at
> : http://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/jmallett-merge/), the patches  
> are:
> :
> : libc-asm.patch - change libc assembly code to use macros which  
> work on o32/n64
> : libc-other.patch - makecontext implemenation, and other cleanup
> : ld.so.patch - change dynamic loader assembly code to use macros
> : tlb-to-c.patch - move TLB operations to C, update TLB operations API
> :
> : I've tested this on XLR, but there is a chance that this might break
> : other platforms. So please let me know your comments on both the
> : patches and the merge process.
>
> I've reviewed these changes with Juli as she was committing them to
> her branch.  I think they are good to go.
>
> Warner
>
>
> : The future patches (if everything goes well), will do the PTE_  
> flag to
> : PG_ flag renaming in Juli's tree, then the actual n32/n64 changes.
> :
> : Thanks,
> : JC.
>

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