>Up until now the Alpha port has not modified the PAL code from the
>reference version provided by Digital, so in essence the page table
>structure used by Tru64/DUX/whatever is what Linux is using. There is
>no reason this couldn't be changed and experimented with in the future
>though.
Agreed. btw, also the MIPS is capable to refill the TLB in software (not
such surprising since it's a RISC CPU too :). I don't know if it's using
page tables for the kernel or not in linux though. If not it could resolve
the phys address without access pgtables in memory too.
Andrea Arcangeli
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