Subject: Re: memsync() proposal (Was: Re: cacheflush() proposal)
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/08/1999 20:23:55
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:15:47PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
> We won't delete pre-existing APIs to the functionality, that is:
>
> - we wont delete the MIPS cacheflush() (or what was its name) and the
> libarch function on ARM32
> - we wont make trap #12 on m68k unusable
> - we wont manipulate the assembler to not output the PPC cache manipulation
> instructions
>
I forgot:
> That is: knowledgable programmers
and old software
> can use the architecture-specific interfaces
> if they so wish.
>
> All I want is an interface that can be used
by new programs, that dont want to do all the architecture specific stuff
themselves.
-is