From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 26 20:08:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20438 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20429 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA22582; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:08:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:08:03 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter Wemm cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM_STACK on the alpha.. check please? In-Reply-To: <199901270322.LAA09737@spinner.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Support for it doesn't appear to be implemented at all- are you asking whether someone would make sure it's implemented, or whether (for now) at least alpha kernels keep compiling and running if you turn it on as a default option? > Can a couple of the Alpha folks please do me a favor and have a look at > the VM_STACK kernel compile option and check that it works for the alpha? > It's in a pretty sensitive area (stack growth). It adds a MAP_STACK option > for mmap(), primarily for linux threads support. > > Whether MAP_STACK works on the alpha is less important at the moment than > whether the kernel compiles and runs OK. The option needs to be unifdef'ed > if we can. > > Cheers, > -Peter > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message