Subject: Re: UVM/PMAP_NEW on i386 panics
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: None <Anders.Hjalmarsson@economics.gu.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1998 19:34:52
Jason Thorpe wrote:
>  "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.

Yes, I have this problem only on a geniune 386, UVM and PMAP_NEW work
without problems on my Pentium Pro.

Anders