Subject: Re: UVM/PMAP_NEW on i386 panics
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1998 19:10:12
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I have a 386/33 with 8MB RAM that works pretty well with UVM and
PMAP_NEW. It has paniced twice in about a month, but I haven't had time to
see why. (panic reason was "trap", I think).
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