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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 13:45:46 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31DD62DA.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4k1nue$lm8@orb.direct.ca> <31D0A2C9.72741EA8@lambert.org> <4qs2ag$bg0@pier2.bayarea.net> <31D29460.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com> <4rbql3$ges@pier2.bayarea.net> <31D9789E.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com> <31D9AE36.3993D656@lambert.org> <SOUVA.96Jul5175429@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22896 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3938 Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > > In article <31D9AE36.3993D656@lambert.org> Terry Lambert > <terry@lambert.org> writes: > > > ] FreeBSD has added optional pmap entry points to support > > ] microcoded TLB's better. > > > This hurts, I think, in the non-microcoded TLB case (Alpha, PPC). > > PPC 603 _have_ microcoded TLBs. In fact, the last time that I looked at the Power PC specs, I had thought that it would be very interesting and fun to write an efficient pmap for it!!! John dyson@freebsd.org