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Subject: Re: [9fans] amd64 support in p9p?
From: Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx>
Date: Thu,  2 Mar 2006 15:56:31 -0800
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on OpenBSD you'll need to copy over rfork_thread and roll
your own {get,set}context functions. however as Russ mentioned,
you don't really need to use OpenBSD's ucontext_t (sigcontext)
for this.

tim


> Hi all,
> is there anybody interested in helping to port the
> plan9 from user space to amd64/x86_64?
> The most platform dependend code seems to be the libthread
> stuff. On OpenBSD-amd64 I can borrow an assembler version of
> rfork_thread from the OpenBSD librthread and can improvise
> the _tas function. The get/setmcontext pose a problem because
> I do not know if struct ucontext must really be exactly the same
> as struct sigcontext.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matthias