On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:17:04AM -0500, Andrew Dyer wrote:
> > > Is support for the 4600 complete? I though these had some alien TLB or
> > > something?
> >
> > R4600 was the first CPU to ever run Linux/MIPS and half of todays CPU's
> > were derived from it like the R5000 etc.
> >
> > You're thinking of the R6000 / R6000A. Really unusual stuff. TLB is
> > part of the last couple of cachelines of the external cache.
> >
>
> More likely he's thinking of the base/bounds MMU stuff in the 4650/4640
> CPU family.
Also possible. The big difference is that it is fundamentally impossible
to support the R4650 / R4640 except with some uclinux/ELKS like thing,
while R6000 / R6000A can be supported quite easily.
Ralf
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