Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:02:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [src] cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia32 ia32_proto.h ia32_syscall.h ia32_sysent.c Message-ID: <20021216220214.35C262A88D@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20021216012030.GA1432@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:57:02PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ah, I wonder if that could have caused Doug's problems. > > I don't think so. This is only used for ia32 emulation on ia64. > > > That's weird, why does ia64/ia32 have a separate syscall gen? > > Perhaps the syscall target in kern should also build these > > babies. > > I'm not entirely sure about that. I'm not sure ia32 emulation is > here to stay (from a hardware point of view). Even then, we may > want to decide to support up to 5-STABLE or 6-STABLE. I mostly > see it as a migration aid. I don't even have it enabled myself :-) The ia64 version of the is32 syscall table is very different. The main cause of excitement is the quad args which are broken up into seperate low/ high arguments and merged in the stubs. There was some alignment issue if I remember correctly. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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