CONFIG_HIGHMEM on PPC

Roman Zippel zippel at fh-brandenburg.de
Fri Jan 26 09:35:58 EST 2001


Hi,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Gabriel Paubert wrote:

> > Heh....64Gbyte is nothing, just a few more bits beyond 32....you
> > don't need 64-bits for this.  In fact, I had a revelation last
> > night where I thought we could even do this quite transparently
> > on PowerPCs with VSIDs or even context registers, anything that
> > implictly gives us a few more bits of virtual address.  Later
> > on that.....
>
> You've seen the light, yes it is the way to go at least on 6xx/7xx[x]...

Could someone enlighten me, too? :)

bye, Roman


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