Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:21:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dyson@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.org, dg@Root.COM, kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: patch for Cyrix/Ti 486SLC/DLC CPU bug Message-ID: <199609120521.WAA06232@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199609112023.GAA10051@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 12, 96 06:23:04 am
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> >> pmap_update_{1,2}pg(). The magic .byte's are a bad way of writing > >> `invlpg' (even gas understands this). > >> > >I don't know the syntax -- change it, and I'll propagate it!!! > > Intel gives the syntax `invlpg m' where m is a memory address. This > maps nicely to gcc inline asm (I think the contstraint is "m"). > > I would put this in cpufunc.h since it is a single instruction and > might be useful elsewhere. Is it reasonable for device drivers to > invalidate pages directly? There is more than one 68K MMU chip. This should also invalidate it for any architecture with seperate MMU. Yeah, I know, no one but me wants to ever run anything but Intel. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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