From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 16 14: 2:29 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 4EA7137B401; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:02:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C9C43ED4; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C262A88D; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:02:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Matthew Dillon , 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 In-Reply-To: <20021216012030.GA1432@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:02:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20021216220214.35C262A88D@canning.wemm.org> 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 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