Subject: idle loop page zeroing
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/11/2000 12:13:20
Are the pages to be zeroed by the idle loop zeroing mechanism guaranteed to
be otherwise unmapped?

At least some revisions of 68060 and 68040 require that no page is mapped
at the same time cachable and non-cachable, as a workaround for some CPU
bug.

Regards,
	-is
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