Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:51:54 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | | Subject | Re: mapping 36 bit physical addresses into 32 bit virtual |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> i distinctly remember the working > with the newest R400x in 1993 which was still 32bit. > > You remember wrong, R400x can run happily in either 32-bit or 64-bit > mode.
Many system implementations sticked to a 32-bit operation of R4k processors, though, possibly because of a few intriguing processor errata in early silicon revisions that hurt badly certain 64-bit operations. This might have created an illusion these processors were 32-bit.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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