On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:15:29PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:17:38PM -0500,
>       Andrew Gallatin said words to the effect of;
> 
> > 
> > Andrew Gallatin writes:
> >  > 
> >  > Since thread0 is no longer a pointer, this looks suspicious in locore.s:
> >  > 
> >  >         /*
> >  >          * Switch to proc0's PCB.
> >  >          */
> >  >         ldq     t0,thread0              /* get phys addr of pcb */
> >  >         ldq     a0,TD_MD_PCBPADDR(t0)
> >  >         SWITCH_CONTEXT
> > 
> > Yeah.. that's it.  I hacked around it by taking thread0's address in
> > machdep.c, shoving it into a global and using that global in locore.s
> > The resulting kernel booted.
> > 
> > What's the "right" way to do this?
> 
> I think you want lda, its used to load an address constant in support.s:

>From what I heared about the thread0 change "lda t0,thread0" *is* the
right thing.
It loads the effective address of thread0 into register t0.

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