Subject: Re: VM change for R4000
To: Toru Nishimura <locore64@alkyltechnology.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-mips
Date: 03/12/2005 18:44:46
On Mar 12, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> The potential pitfall here is VPT/AVPT are subject to ASID magic.
> It's _the_
> intent of the original R3000 designer.
That is the pitfall, yes. Alpha doesn't suffer from this problem
because all software access is via KSEG, but gets the benefit because
the VPT mappings don't have G-bit set.
-- thorpej