mapping memory in 0xb space

Igor Grobman igor at cs.wisc.edu
Wed Oct 6 03:46:53 EST 2004


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> > A question for the rest of you, who haven't been following this thread.
> > Is there publicly available documentation on the power4 extensions,
> > specifically the large page support, how it effects the HPT hashing,
> > and
> > the SLB, including the new instructions for maintaining it in software?
> > I haven't been able to find anything yet.
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub3.pdf
>
> has some info, don't know if that is enough for you -- nothing
> much POWER4 specific in there, but large pages are part of the
> architecture, so it does talk about the instructions to handle
> them etc.

Thanks, this is what I was looking for.

-Igor



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