Subject: Re: Fwd: Current kernel I modified works fine on
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/13/1999 08:16:49
At 03:26 AM 5/13/99 -0700, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>I didn't want this important message for port-sparc to be lost in the
>shuffle on current-users; it seems we might have the solution for
>HyperSPARC CPU support:

Great news! I would be glad to try it out when you say so.

Thank you!

-mike

>
>
>>From:	YoshiyaEto <eto@sxo.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>
>>To:	"'current-users@netbsd.org'" <current-users@netbsd.org>
>>Subject: Current kernel I modified works fine on SS-20/HyperSPARC
>>Date:	Wed, 12 May 1999 17:39:59 +0900
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>>
>>  I modified pmap.c of current-kernel for HyperSPARC.
>>Now, that kernel works fine on my SS-20/HyperSPARC(150MHz).
>>
>>  HyperSPARC's MMU does not peek a modification of PTE.
>>So,I add following two lines to setpgt4m() in pmap.c.
>>
>>+        if (cpuinfo.cpu_type == CPUTYP_HS_MBUS)
>>+                tlb_flush_all();
>>
>>This modification is not so good,because only the related TLB entry should
>>be flushed.
>>
>>Could someone brush up this modification and integrate this into source
tree ?
>>
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>

Michael C. Ibarra
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