On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:40:45AM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:

 > 
 > I would like to point out it's time for NetBSD to define some sort of
 > cache manapulation primitive in kernel API area.  It's a p-a-i-n for
 > NetBSD/mips to cope with R3000 style cache and R4000 style cache at
 > the same time because upper VM and other kernel machinary have little
 > knowledge for processor nature of cache machinary and no provision of
 > accomodation for myriad of cache designs (I'm thinking of hp300).

It would be easier to deal with if pmap routines for MIPS-I and MIPS-III
were actually separate, and calls occurred through function pointers,
or something (like the SPARC does for sun4c vs. sun4m).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>