Subject: Re: use OMAGIC for kernels
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/07/2001 21:56:30
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:16:16PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:

 > Just a comment besides what being done.
 > 
 > It's a tricky but brilliant idea CPU is allowed to run in cache
 > enabled memory region which is available without MMU intervention.
 > It'd be p-a-i-n if CPU imposes, say, i386 way or m68k way to run.

Indeed -- the direct-mapped segment on MIPS and Alpha is simply
brilliant -- I love it.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>