Re: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Mohit Aron wrote: Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler.

Re: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Mohit Aron wrote: Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler.

Re: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-17 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:10:21 -0500 (CDT) Mohit Aron a...@cs.rice.edu wrote: ...well, I'm speaking from the NetBSD perspective, but it's the same in FreeBSD, because both use the OSF/1 PALcode... as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to

TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-16 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how

TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-16 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how