Subject: Re: UVM/PMAP_NEW on i386 panics
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1998 08:23:42
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:46:44 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > I've been running new pmap and new UVM for months. Things work great
 > for me. One proviso: I recompiled userland for UVM and PMAP_NEW.

Perry: I think the issue here is that these folks have genuine i386
processors, while you have probably always run it on an i486 or higher.

The new pmap has lots of hooks for optimizing the i486 or higher case,
and it's possible that it gets a few things wrong in the real i386 case.

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