> > The MMU on these systems is a CAM, and the mmu table is thus backwards to
> > convention. (It also means you can notionally map two physical addresses to
> > one virtual but thats undefined in the implementation ;))
>
> Are there any other (not yet supported) platforms with similar (or other
> unrelated, but hard to support because of the current architecture of
> the kernel) problems?
I believe its uniquely deranged. There are people who have asked for reverse
tables for other purposes (eg cache flush handling) but their mmu is the normal
way around.
Alan
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