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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:28:26 -0700 (PWT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: egcs ready for alpha? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904151125090.4563-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199904151804.LAA03139@dingo.cdrom.com>

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> > 
> > wonder of wonders, last night's buildworld went all the way through on
> > alpha. Can I take this to mean that it's safe to do an installworld?
> 
> Dunno.  The last snapshot I installed (yesterday) has broken NFS.  You 
> might want to keep an old kernel lying around at least. 8)
> 

Yes- but with Matt Dillon's two micro patches (reproduced below) things
seem happier. Clearly the buildworld wouldn't have worked because the
source is actually on my SS1000.

It was more a question of can I now give  up the gcc2.7.2.1 compiler and
expect to keep being able to work on the Fibre Channel driver (a daily
ritual).



-matt

Index: vm_page.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c,v
retrieving revision 1.129
diff -u -r1.129 vm_page.c
--- vm_page.c	1999/04/05 19:38:29	1.129
+++ vm_page.c	1999/04/15 18:27:08
@@ -1491,11 +1491,13 @@
 	if ((frag = base & ~(DEV_BSIZE - 1)) != base &&
 	    (m->valid & (1 << (base >> DEV_BSHIFT))) == 0
 	) {
+#if 0
 		pmap_zero_page_area(
 		    VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m),
 		    frag,
 		    base - frag
 		);
+#endif
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1509,11 +1511,13 @@
 	if ((frag = endoff & ~(DEV_BSIZE - 1)) != endoff &&
 	    (m->valid & (1 << (endoff >> DEV_BSHIFT))) == 0
 	) {
+#if 0
 		pmap_zero_page_area(
 		    VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m),
 		    endoff,
 		    DEV_BSIZE - (endoff & (DEV_BSIZE - 1))
 		);
+#endif
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1576,11 +1580,13 @@
 		    (m->valid & (1 << i))
 		) {
 			if (i > b) {
+#if	0
 				pmap_zero_page_area(
 				    VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m), 
 				    b << DEV_BSHIFT,
 				    (i - b) << DEV_BSHIFT
 				);
+#endif
 			}
 			b = i + 1;
 		}



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