Oh nevermind -- that's not what you were asking.


On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM, DRAM Ninjas <[email protected]> wrote:

> RIP is just the name of the instruction pointer in x86-64 -- intel's
> register naming convention is that the 64 bit registers have an 'R' prefix
> ... so RAX is the 64 bit AX register, RIP = 64 bit IP, etc.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, sparsh mittal <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Also can you give some reference for rip etc. I have no idea what
>> they are and that obstructs my understanding. Thanks again.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Sparsh Mittal
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM, avadh patel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:49 PM, sparsh mittal 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>> There is code in ptlhwdef.h
>>>>
>>>> // PTLsim's internal memory related variables
>>>> extern W64 PTLSIM_RAM_PHYSADDR;
>>>>
>>>> #define PTLSIM_RAM_SIZE 128*1024*1024
>>>>
>>>> Is this code useful or obsolete? I don't find it is used elsewhere
>>>> meaningfully. Does PTLsim needs its own ram?
>>>>
>>>> Further, can you give some pointers on things like  RIP and meanings of
>>>> symbols such as mfnlo:28, use64:1, kernel:1, padlo:2, mfnhi:28, df:1,
>>>> padhi:3
>>>>
>>>> All this is obsolete and will be removed.  These variables were used by
>>> Xen based PTLsim for page management in Xen hypervisor. It will be removed
>>> eventually.
>>>
>>> - Avadh
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>> Sparsh Mittal
>>>>
>>>>
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