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>I am not trying to suggest that you and/or him are wrong, 
>but I cannot find (in manual) anything that would support 
>your position that 970 has no block address translation. 
>Regarding 16MB superpages, I believe manual explicitly says 
>that 970 has no superpages, but I did not go through the doc 
>again. Therefore, I could be mistaken.

 I think there's an IBM technote that states there are
no BATs on the 970. Linux source has comments to that
effect as well.

 And before I found that info, I tried in vain to get it
to work on my G5.

later,

Peter.