From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:35:24 -0700 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:12370 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:35:06 -0700 Received: from nodin.corp.sgi.com (nodin.corp.sgi.com [192.26.51.193]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id QAA03693 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:27:01 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by nodin.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA89506 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA99875 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:32:30 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: from u-100.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de (u-100.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.19.100]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id QAA08996 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:32:25 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:31:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:31:55 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jun Sun Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: PROPOSAL : multi-way cache support in Linux/MIPS Message-ID: <20000803013155.A2097@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <027f01bffcd3$3279b800$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <3988AA72.5C342E1D@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3988AA72.5C342E1D@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:10:43PM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:10:43PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > So, to get back to Linux, a MIPS32 part can *almost* > > run the standard MIPS R4K kernel. Almost. What had > > Still one more question. If I understand correctly, the 4Km and 4Kp are > MIPS32 CPUs. However, they don't have TLBs. Right? Without TLBs, I > don't suppose Linux will run ... There is ``Microcontroller Linux'' aka uclinux available at www.uclinux.org. It could be ported to TLB-less processors. You'd loose some of the important functionality of the standard Linux, including some source compatibility. Ralf