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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, des@ofug.org wrote:
> Might it be a good idea to have separate b{copy,zero} implementations
> for special purposes like pmap_{copy,zero}_page?

We do have a i686_pagezero already, which seems to be used in
pmap_zero_page - I guess it may not be well tuned to modern processors,
as it is almost 5 years old.

	David.