Subject: Re: NetBSD/arc status
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-mips
Date: 07/24/1998 19:37:15
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:51:11 +0900 (JST),
   Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> writes:

[snip]

>Bingo! MIPS3_FLUSH fixes the problem.
>Thanks!

>I'll change the MIPS3_FLUSH test from #ifdef to the dynamic test
>based on L2 cache present or not.
>Is this OK?

By all means add the dynamic test, but please leave the #ifdef, too.
Some machines always have an L2 cache with a mips3 (e.g., pmax) so
there's no need to even test there.

ARC should probably have
	options 	MIPS3 MIPS3_FLUSH

as "mandatory" options.

>BTW, I encountered next problem. :-)
>Probably this is spl related. ARC's spl handling should be fixed anyway,
>so I'm trying to fix it, now.

ok, cool. glad to be of help.