Subject: Re: use OMAGIC for kernels
To: None <port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/08/2001 13:16:16
Jason Thorpe said;

> All NetBSD/mips ports load the kernel into KSEG0 (we'd be ... rather
> foolish not to do so), and as such, have no reason to use an executable
> format

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.

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology