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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 13:45:46 -0500
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Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> In article <31D9AE36.3993D656@lambert.org> Terry Lambert
> <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>
> >   ] FreeBSD has added optional pmap entry points to support
> >   ] microcoded TLB's better.
> 
> >   This hurts, I think, in the non-microcoded TLB case (Alpha, PPC).
> 
> PPC 603 _have_ microcoded TLBs.

In fact, the last time that I looked at the Power PC specs, I had
thought that it would be very interesting and fun to write an
efficient pmap for it!!!

John
dyson@freebsd.org