Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD

[Jayachandran C.]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Randall Stewart <rrs at lakerest.net> wrote:
> Do we want to make sure that the changes
> work on a couple of other platforms (sibyte etc)?

I can make sure that the compile does not break - but I don't have any
way to test further. The changes (except the tlb.c change) really
should not break the existing code, but it is always good to test.

JC.

> 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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