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Date:      Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:29:30 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED
Message-ID:  <20020207012930.GB2567@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020206201529.B5140@locore.ca>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202061157570.91961-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <15457.47000.527840.252043@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15457.47506.919518.594829@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020206201529.B5140@locore.ca>

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:15:29PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:17:38PM -0500,
> 	Andrew Gallatin said words to the effect of;
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> I think you want lda, its used to load an address constant in support.s:

From what I heared about the thread0 change "lda t0,thread0" *is* the
right thing.
It loads the effective address of thread0 into register t0.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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