On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:55:03AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > The size of the address space can be probed via CP0 registers (for MIPS > > architecture processors that is). No need to add any CPU dependencies > > (except from legacy 64-bit MIPS processors perhaps). > > > That would help. Do you happen to know which CP0 register(s) to look for ? > I browsed through the MIPS 5K and 20Kc manuals, but didn't find it. Write a value with all bits set to c0_entryhi, then read it back again. The set bits in the VPN2 bitfield will indicate the size of the virtual address range supported. The MIPS64 documentation also calls this value SEGBITS. The nice thing about this probe is that it is supported for all 64-bit MIPS processors except the R8000 which has an entirely different TLB scheme anyway. Similarly it is possible to probe the physical address range in either c0_entrylo0 or c0_entrylo1. This is also of interest on 32-bit processors. Ralf
