Subject: Re: -current kernel dies on mips3 (before main()?)
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mips
Date: 03/21/1998 22:07:38
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 22:10:04 -0800
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Michael's fix sounds fine. I was thinking maybe the locore vectors
> werent' set up, but of course they are. I guess maybe proc90 setup
> should be a locore call-back point or a cpuswitch entry?
>
>
> >I'm also running with those pages explicitly zeroed out like it was
> >previously. I haven't been able to determine if that's necessary or
> >not.
>
> The bzeroing can't hurt, but I dont understand why it's necessary.
>
> I also consed up an empty pmap_deactivate(). What's that supposed to
> do on a mips? Or should I be turning on PMAP_NEW or UVM (or both?)
On the MIPS, nothing. (On the Alpha, all it does it clear a bit
in a mask of CPUs using the pmap.)
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