Re: That's how (why) BSD is dying (Was: BPF64)

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Vadim Goncharov wrote:

> And e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
> says 2 registers are for kernel - OK, and what if we are kernel itself? :-)
> Do we need Thread Pointer of Global Pointer, or we can stash them to
> stack? Etc.

Where in that page does it say that a MIPS kernel can only use two
registers?  It clearly says that two registers are reserved for kernel
use, but certainly doesn't claim to say that the kernel can only use
two regs.

Cheers,
Simon.