The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UVM VM system
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:53:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xon7ek50zbe.fsf@anduin.eldar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OXVo0ng5bnpjVO_uLRLqGo3ROxhCNdJaTmr8qa3Nb_EQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Clem Cole on Sat, 1 Sep 2018 15:16:42 -0400)

Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> writes:

[snip]

>> and it looks encouraging.  Apparently NetBSD is using it.
>
> Hmm - integrated/used it at one time ... but ... I'm not sure of that is
> still true of it it even really made it out.  That was all happening when I
> was still hacking on Alphas (which was a long time ago).   We'd need the
> active NetBSD folks to chime in on curent state.
>

[snip]




Yes, UVM has been used with NetBSD for a very long time.  The browseable
CVS repo at www.netbsd.org suggests that work started in 1997 - 1998 or
so.  Looks like in 1999 the Mach VM was completely removed from NetBSD
except for some include files, but clean up appears to have continued
into 2000.



-- 
Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01 18:50 Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 19:07 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-01 19:16 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01 19:41   ` ron minnich
2018-09-01 19:45     ` ron minnich
2018-09-01 20:25     ` Warner Losh
2018-09-01 21:15       ` ron minnich
2018-09-02  5:19       ` Kevin Bowling
2018-09-02 14:55         ` Warner Losh
2018-09-02 15:28           ` Will Senn
2018-09-01 19:53   ` Brad Spencer [this message]
2018-09-02  6:29   ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-02  8:07     ` Steve Mynott

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xon7ek50zbe.fsf@anduin.eldar.org \
    --to=brad@anduin.eldar.org \
    --cc=clemc@ccc.com \
    --cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).