On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Indeed -- IIRC the architecture spec calls this value PABITS. I wasn't > > sure about the legacy processors -- if that works with them too, then it's > > even better. > > The probing method was undocumented until MIPS64 but if you look at the > format of the EntryLo register it's always been possible. The R10000 Frankly, I would be concerned about some reserved bits left floating rather than hardwired to any particular logical state, but the number of chips to check is limited. At least for some of them documentation is explicit the value reported is fixed and we can take it as an indication it is likely actually the case. > needs special treatment though - it has the UC (Uncache Attribute) field > in the bits 62..63 of EntryLo; this field needs to be ignored. Well, I think masking out everything beyond what would become the bit #63 of the physical address unconditionally is a safe and reasonable way to make the approach automagically work for the R10k too. Maciej
