From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 16 17:58:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395137B401; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8848543EB2; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20021217015814003006mtd3e>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 01:58:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA15093; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:58:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:58:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Nate Lawson , Julian Elischer , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 dump_machdep.c In-Reply-To: <20021217005342.GA27317@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:19:12PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > Functionally, it is important that this check be MI. > > > > I thought about that. > > Different architectures can have different dump sizes (theoretically) > > so only the MD code can know how much room it needs. > > For example, ia64 might decide to implement sparse dumps. > > Different architectures already have different dump sizes, because > both ia64 and sparc64 have sparse memory dumps and each has overhead > to keep track of the memory chunks. ia64 uses ELF as the container, > sparc64 has something else. > > So, yes; the check has to be MD. So who knows each architecture to know how the check should be done on those architgectures? > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message