Re: booting NetBSD/vax on real hardware

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Martin Husemann skrev 2014-05-27 13:27:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:33:12PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Spot on - not the decompress code, but the crc32() function in libsa.
> > The optimized one in libkern uses large tables, but that makes it fast
> > on VAX. The tiny one in libsa computes it all on the fly - and seems to
> > be dog slow on VAX.
> >
> > I'm testing a change to switch back to the libkern one for VAX.
> Unfortunately that didn't do the trick. But still we should have an
> asm version of crc32 using the crc instruction. Anyone?
Hm, is the crc function available on all CPUs?  So that we do not end up 
emulating it on some hardware?

-- R