CONFIG_HIGHMEM on PPC
David Edelsohn
dje at watson.ibm.com
Fri Jan 26 08:46:01 EST 2001
>>>>> Gabriel Paubert writes:
Gabriel> The MM design of which Linus is so proud is actually not well suited to
Gabriel> 6xx/7xx processors. Can't speak about high end IBM processors.
For better or worse, Linux's hardware abstraction layer is the
IA-32 architecture. And no, that does not map well to other architectures
without an 3-level (?), forward page table.
David
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