Re: The SPARC Context Id ?

2006-03-23 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm a kernel developer as well as a newbie to SPARC. I'm not quite sure the
>purpose of the 13-bit context identifier in SPARC translation table entries.
>I searched through the SPARC architecture manual and the web but found no
>enough details.
>
>P.S. is there any other public references that we can count on beyond this
>architecture manual?


SPARC covers at least half a dozen different sub-arches, each with a
different MMU.  sun4u (miscalled sparc64 in linux -- sparc64 is a
different arch from fujitsu linux doesn't support) is the most likely
to be of interest, followed by sun4m (the only remaing 32 bit sparc
architecture Debian supports).

Unfortunatly, I can't answer your question, I never got into that
kind of detail.

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SPARC Context Id?

2006-03-22 Thread Weihan Wang

Hi All,

I'm a newbie for SPARC. I'm not sure the purpose of the 13-bit context 
identifier in SPARC translation table entries. I searched through the 
SPARC architecture manual and the web but found no enough details 
regarding this identifier.


PS: is there any other SPARC reference we (OS developers) can count on 
beyond that architecture manual?


Thanks in advance!

Weihan


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The SPARC Context Id ?

2006-03-22 Thread Weihan Wang

Hi,

I'm a kernel developer as well as a newbie to SPARC. I'm not quite sure the
purpose of the 13-bit context identifier in SPARC translation table entries.
I searched through the SPARC architecture manual and the web but found no
enough details.

P.S. is there any other public references that we can count on beyond this
architecture manual?

Thanks in advance.

Weihan


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