Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:11:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux address mapping |
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>Up until now the Alpha port has not modified the PAL code from the >reference version provided by Digital, so in essence the page table >structure used by Tru64/DUX/whatever is what Linux is using. There is >no reason this couldn't be changed and experimented with in the future >though.
Agreed. btw, also the MIPS is capable to refill the TLB in software (not such surprising since it's a RISC CPU too :). I don't know if it's using page tables for the kernel or not in linux though. If not it could resolve the phys address without access pgtables in memory too.
Andrea Arcangeli
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