Re: HEADS UP: matt-nb5-mips64 merge to HEAD

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Matt Thomas wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:48 AM, haad wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Matt Thomas <matt@3am- 
> > software.com> wrote:
> > > I've spent the past few days merging my matt-nb5-mips64 to HEAD.
> > >
> > > It's now in a state almost ready to commit.  This affects every  
> > > mips port in a major way.  Several thing change (IPL/spl code,  
> > > interrupts, soft interrupts, pmap, tlb, ...) in various major  
> > > ways.  This could almost be considered a rewrite of the mips code.
> >
> > Great :) This merge will make mips second most SMP ready platform  
> > in NetBSD.
>
> Oh, this includes SMP support for some MIPS processors too.  But  
> it's still a little buggy.  Part of this effort is to see if -HEAD  
> acts differently than netbsd-5.

Sounds like it's time to get an Octane ;)
Either way, I tried a matt-nb5-mips64 kernel and userland ( with no  
special options, everything seems to be n32 ) on my O2 yesterday and  
it appears to Just Work(tm) where -current still has problems.

have fun
Michael

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