Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:32 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> To: "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD Message-ID: <7D8CB554-C1A9-48AA-99EF-136CCD19619B@lakerest.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_UBVqHAMysmMfwR1LbPBQzJCJLWjuXguDFIYS@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.com> <20100615.075142.716508926086259279.imp@bsdimp.com> <AANLkTim_UBVqHAMysmMfwR1LbPBQzJCJLWjuXguDFIYS@mail.gmail.com>
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I would think small verifiable changes would be good.. that way if something does break (and we miss it) we can more easily figure out what it was... R On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jayachandran C. wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:21 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> > wrote: >> In message: <AANLkTik8jFkB7FTIIhyjalkfv1c0yXqse57Jzz527uf_@mail.gmail.com >> > >> "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> writes: >> : I have volunteered to merge Juli's 64-bit work into HEAD, and >> : hopefully get it to work on XLR too. The tree >> : (http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/jmallett/octeon) has quite a >> bit of >> : changes, so I would like to do this over multiple changesets and >> : without breaking the current o32 code. >> : >> : The first batch of changes are attached (also at >> : http://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/jmallett-merge/), the patches >> are: >> : >> : libc-asm.patch - change libc assembly code to use macros which >> work on o32/n64 >> : libc-other.patch - makecontext implemenation, and other cleanup >> : ld.so.patch - change dynamic loader assembly code to use macros >> : tlb-to-c.patch - move TLB operations to C, update TLB operations >> API >> : >> : I've tested this on XLR, but there is a chance that this might >> break >> : other platforms. So please let me know your comments on both the >> : patches and the merge process. >> >> I've reviewed these changes with Juli as she was committing them to >> her branch. I think they are good to go. > > Then, would you want to do it this way, or one big merge from Juli's > branch would be okay? > > JC. > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell)
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