Re: memory

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Apr 1998 18:52:00 GMT

Followup to: <19980425010910.42210@uni-mainz.de>
By author: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sundiver.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Why would we want to do this? We don't swap, Linux uses paging
> which operates on pages, not segments. Unless you are saying that
> the PMMU is strictly 32 bit. Wouldn't surprise me so, just look
> how broken the overall design of the Intel architecture is.
>

The PMMU is strictly 32-bit.

-hpa

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