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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:00:47 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <412B905F.8070903@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040824185624.GD760@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <200408241831.i7OIVRw2030307@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040824185624.GD760@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> On 2004.08.24 18:31:27 +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>obrien      2004-08-24 18:31:27 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    sys/ia64/conf        GENERIC 
>>  Log:
>>  sr(4) definately won't work on IA64.
> 
> 
> So is asr(4) i386 only (it's not in GENERIC for any other
> architecture)?
> 
> Then I will update the Hardware Notes acordingly...
> 

asr cannot work on big-endian machines, nor can it work on machines
with a 64-bit address space.  So that limits it to i386 without PAE.
There is nothing stopping it from working with other arches, but it
needs to be made busdma-aware for starters,  I started on this last
spring but was asked to stop for other reasons.  Maybe it will happen
for 5.4, dunno.

Scott



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