Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/mips/mips
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/23/2007 13:21:56
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Hello,
On Feb 23, 2007, at 12:13, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>
>>
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By: tsutsui
>> Date: Fri Feb 23 15:11:36 UTC 2007
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> src/sys/arch/mips/mips: locore.S locore_mips3.S
>>
>> Log Message:
>> uvm.page_idle_zero now is a bool, not a 32bit value any more.
>>
>> BTW, is it still worth to have uvm_pageidlezero()? Which port uses it?
>
> I think it's probably a safe bet that no one uses it, and that it's
> probably worth removing. It's completely antithetical to power
> management, for example.
On sparc it's ( or used to be - didn't check in a while ) enabled by
default, I had to hack around it when putting the sparcbook's CPU to
sleep in the idle loop.
have fun
Michael
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