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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:59:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Lyndon Griffin <lgriffin@bsd4us.org>
To:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SS 470 info
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.10.10001260258320.32503-100000@ns.bsd4us.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001252351260.61908-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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How does the 470 compare to the 600, in this respect?

<:)  Lyndon Griffin
http://www.bsd4us.org

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> Not significantly different- just more- it's a 3rd level MMU extension to the
> 2 level sun4c/sun4/sun3 stuff. On the older machines it was a resource
> limitation of pte's mapped by PMEG (page map entry group). The sunray MMU
> added SMEG (system map entry group) to map groups of PMEGs.
> 
> If you mean "Is it different from other sparcs", i.e., sun4m/sun4u, yes-
> sun4m/sun4u both have real memory page tables. The older sun machines were
> more like the VAX- restricted amounts of SRAM to provide a multilevel TLB.
> For the time an excellent but cheap design. With respect to flexibility, gawd
> awful.



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