Subject: Re: building libkvm
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 07/12/2001 13:05:19
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> I've been trying to get libkvm building on my cats box (with the newly layed
> out includes dir structure)  and have been having to do a few dubious things
> to get it to build.  The main one being some dummy include files that are
> just empty but stop the build complaining they don't exist.  I also had to
> make a machine/pch.h that points at arm32/pcb.h.

Does something in userland actually care about the shape of struct pcb
then?  If so, we either need to stop it doing so or standardise its shape
across arm26 and arm32.

> Looking at libkvm I'm not sure that it can be shared across arm26 and arm32,
> it's very much tied into the kernel.

If all else fails, it can switch between implementations at run-time.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>