Subject: Re: NOTICE: thorpej-mips-cache branch will be merged today
To: None <port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore32@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 11/23/2001 12:05:29
> How about categorize and collerate the functional aspect of CPU designs
> instead of patch works to fill holes like that?
>
>> - TLB
>> R3KTLB or R4KTLB (possibly R4KTLB64 for LP64)
>> - cache
>> R3KCACHE, R4KCACHE (, R5KCACHE) or TX39CACHE ...
>> - FP registers
>> FPPAIRED32 (thirty-two 32bit), FPDOUBLE (thirty-two 64bit) or FPSINGLE (sorta)
>> - others necessary...
>
> Err, uh, users _definitely_ shouldn't have to think about _these_ in
> their config files.
Exposing the such symbols in user configuration file is another matter which be
addressed. It would help to eliminate logical && and logical || which are solely
derived from how NetBSD kernel source code is written.
Toru Nishimura