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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:27:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM_STACK on the alpha.. check please? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901270913500.25129-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199901270945.RAA11288@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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> > 
> > 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?
> 
> It looked to me as though it was.  grow_stack() is in vm/*, not in alpha/
> machdep.c.  It should compile, but does it work? :-)  That's the question.
> 
> sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c:#ifndef VM_STACK
> sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c:       * know how to implement it for the VM_STACK case.  Also, we would
> sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c:       * non VM_STACK case.
> sys/alpha/alpha/trap.c:#ifndef VM_STACK
> sys/alpha/alpha/vm_machdep.c:#ifndef VM_STACK

Geez. I must have been looking at a stale tree..


> 
> Add options VM_STACK, recompile and test please. :-)  If it boots and 
> runs, then we can unifdef -DVM_STACK which will solve a few problems.


Okay.... Will do....


> 
> I wish I had an Alpha. :-)


If you need ssh access to an alpha, I may be able to help. At the very
lesat there's one available for compiling at FreeBSD.org-
beast.freebsd.org.

-matt






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