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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:19:08AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On the other hand, can we change the mips kernel to save k0 or k1 for
> user space?

I doubt it.  Traditionally these are clobbered by the TLB fill trap.


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