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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r327950 - in head/sys/powerpc: aim include powerpc ps3
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 09:30:53AM -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> The immediate consequence of that is that no MI code that knows about 
> direct maps can possibly take advantage of the direct map on this 
> platform. Do we really want that to save some conditional logic that 
> would get optimized out on amd64 and arm64 anyway? I really do not see 
> the benefit here.

It is not clear what do you mean.  Are you saying that there is no benefit
of providing the conditional logic, or that it is not benefit of exclusing
powerpc ?

I do not object against adding the conditional, but it should not be
too clumsy to use.