Subject: Re: new MIPS pmap.c
To: None <port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore64@alkyltechnology.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 03/09/2005 10:01:04
> At Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:47:37 +0000 (UTC), "Toru Nishimura" wrote:
> > - I'm planning to make LP64 OS.  The issue is 64bit TLB refill
> > handler strategy.  I will take a hashed-reverse-PTE way.
> 
> Why not VPT (alpha style, also the typical MIPS style AFAIK)?

VPT for 40bit address space is considered less practical.  NetBSD/alpha
takes a mixed strategy, doesn't it?

Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology