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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 13:03:40 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <B+5QK10.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <30finf$98e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <DERAADT.94Jul21000030@newt.fsa.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1g.delphi.com X-To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> writes: >In article <xQ+RCHu.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes: > The code will work fine on big endian architectures, but > some of the enhancements are non-starters on machines with TLB-only like > sparcs. > >The sparc sun4/sun4c machines do not have a TLB. It is true that some of the FreeBSD enhancements are machine-type specific. That is the reason that such code resides in vm_machdep and pmap. As we do ports to other architectures -- new code will be added to get the most out of them also. John dyson@implode.root.com