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re: 32bit compat NFS server and PMC syscalls
Martin Husemann writes:
> I've been looking at adding the missing things to compat/netbsd32
> recently, mainly to make the default N32 userland on mips64 more usefull
> and able to run our full test suite.
>
> Most missing pieces are just oversights/lazyness and easy to fill in.
>
> However, I wonder about
>
> a) nfssvc (i.e. the nfsd kernel part) - does it make sense to use that?
> Alternatively we could build the nfsd binary as N64 on mips64 (like
> we need to do for some of the essential kvm grovelers)
i recall this being more ugly than i should be, but i don't think
we should have to make it need 64 bit. it really isn't doing much
and should be a case we can handle.
> b) pmc_get_info/pmc_control
> These are undocumented syscalls apparently used by the pmc(1) tool.
> Is this interface (still) usefull and MI enough to be worth supporting?
these are only supported on x86 currently so i think you should
just ignore this.
thanks!
.mrg.
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