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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/25] Add support for multi-level phys map.
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:34 +0000
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Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>

On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> As Alpha physical addresses are 44 bits, l1_phys_map can't be anymore 2
> levels. Use a more generic multi-level approach and explain why we don't
> need to extend l1_map.

Having two different code paths, one of which is going to be largely untested, 
seems like a bad idea. If done properly the multi-level code should be usable 
for everything, with little or no performance hit.

Paul