The following reply was made to PR port-mips/31915; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
To: garrett_damore@tadpole.com
Cc: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>,
	SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	port-mips@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-mips/31915: provide centralized wired_map logic
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:41:45 +0900

 "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett_damore@tadpole.com> wrote:
 >  >- pagemask for wired maps should be defined in machine dependent headers,
 >  >  or maybe it should be passed from callers.
 > 
 >  I don't like passing it from callers, because I don't want it to be 
 >  variable.  (This would make the code a lot more complex to make sure it 
 >  was correct and you didn't have overlapping maps, etc.)   But defining 
 >  it in the machine dependent header seems reasonable.
 
 If we'll provide an implementation which is reusable from various
 ports, pagemask should be passed from callers.
 ARC port needs it.
 --
 soda