Messages in this thread | | | From | (Joerg Pommnitz) | Subject | Re: What's a "pmd"? | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:56:15 +0100 (CET) |
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> > I am getting a whole slew of messages about bad ones (pmds) when I reboot > from 1.3.74. The two normal messages about termination appear, there are a > few seconds of pause, and then a string of messages like > > use_pmd (bad pmd <an address>) > > Seems to work correctly after the batch of grey-hair generators though. I > have never seen this before... > > Harvey >
I see the same thing here.
A pmd is a page middle directory, I think. The strange thing is, that the intel cpu's have a two level paging scheme, so there shouldn't be a pmd at all. I think, Linus will know.
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