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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:17:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED
Message-ID:  <15457.47506.919518.594829@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15457.47000.527840.252043@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202061157570.91961-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <15457.47000.527840.252043@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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Andrew Gallatin writes:
 > 
 > Since thread0 is no longer a pointer, this looks suspicious in locore.s:
 > 
 >         /*
 >          * Switch to proc0's PCB.
 >          */
 >         ldq     t0,thread0              /* get phys addr of pcb */
 >         ldq     a0,TD_MD_PCBPADDR(t0)
 >         SWITCH_CONTEXT

Yeah.. that's it.  I hacked around it by taking thread0's address in
machdep.c, shoving it into a global and using that global in locore.s
The resulting kernel booted.

What's the "right" way to do this?

Drew

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