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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 10:37:17 -0400
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/powerpc/include cpu.h src/sys/powerpc/powerpc machdep.c trap.c
Message-ID:  <20020528103717.N62759@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1022595322.616.9.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net>; from benno@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:15:19AM %2B1000
References:  <200205280736.g4S7aag43954@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528102104.M62759@locore.ca> <1022595322.616.9.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net>

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Apparently, On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:15:19AM +1000,
	Benno Rice said words to the effect of;

> On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 00:21, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > Apparently, On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:36:36AM -0700,
> > 	Benno Rice said words to the effect of;
> > 
> > > benno       2002/05/28 00:36:36 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/powerpc/include  cpu.h 
> > >     sys/powerpc/powerpc  machdep.c trap.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Move the kcopy() function from trap.c to machdep.c.  Add a prototype.
> > 
> > FWIW this is a netbsd-ism.  FreeBSD doesn't use a kernel copy function
> > which catches page faults.
> 
> Does that mean it's safe to use bcopy in pmap_copy_page?

If you can access physical addresses directly, yes.

> 
> -- 
> Benno Rice
> benno@FreeBSD.org



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