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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:07:02 -0700
From:      Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 16241 for review
Message-ID:  <20020819100702.GD3751@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020819100223.GB93644@cicely9.cicely.de>
References:  <200208190328.g7J3STap059184@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020819100223.GB93644@cicely9.cicely.de>

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Bernd Walter [ticso@cicely9.cicely.de] wrote :

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:28:29PM -0700, Jonathan Mini wrote:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=16241
> > 
> > Change 16241 by mini@mini_stylus on 2002/08/18 20:28:06
> > 
> > 	- Add the glue needed to get and save mcontext_t structs from and to a
> > 	  thread (respectively).
> > 	- Modify the timing of FPU state management so that (among other
> > 	  things)the FPU regs are set from the mcontext_t for a thread just
> > 	  before returning to userland upon delivering a signal.
> > 	
> > 	Sadly, this is i386-only. This work is from Daniel Eischen, who
> > 	wrote alpha MD code as well, but I was unable to include that here
> > 	(lack of testability, lack of understanding of alpha arch on my part).
> 
> I will be out of town for around a week.
> When I'm back I can spend some time on the alpha part.

Drop me an email when you get back in. By then, I should have this
hack stable on i386. Right now it's like 98% broken. =)

> After all that's a perforce branch.
> I don't expect anyone to complain if you break alpha in that branch.

Nope.

-- 
Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
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