>> [...my misunderstanding of what PALcode is...]
> [...thorpej explaining...]

> To be honest, PALcode is one of my favorite features of the Alpha
> architecture.  [...]  Plus, the PALcode is written by the processor
> designers.  Those people know how the hardware works, and all of its
> quirks and gotchas (or, at least, they'd better :-) ... I trust their
> TLB reloading code more than I would mine, I think :-)

Yeah, I can see that.  And the more I learn about it, the more I like
it - as a feature of the architecture.

The problem is with the implementation: when you can't *get* "their TLB
reloading code", you don't have enough info to write your own. :-(

Growl.

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