Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/15/1999 22:17:18
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:56:25 +0200 (MET DST)
> Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:
>
> > > This is cool... I didn't realize the VAX port direct-mapped all of
> > > physical RAM :-)
> > >
> > Well, I started mapping in all physical memory first in the virtual
> > memory a couple of years ago to simplify pmap_copy_page() and
> > pmap_zero_page(), which only is 3 resp. 2 instructions each :-)
>
> Kewl :-)
>
> I suppose it's fairly simple to do on the VAX, because, well, I've
> never seen a VAX with a Lot of memory :-)
Out of curiosity, what constitutes "a Lot of memory"? :-)
Johnny
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