Star Debian GNU/Hurd: the L series
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 14:33 UTC, submitted by J!NX
Debian and its clones Debian GNU/Hurd can now be installed a little easier. "This month Philip Charles created a new installation CD, the L series, for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try."
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RE[4]: This is cool.
by Zifre on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:15 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: This is cool."
Zifre
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2009-10-04

dude, processors have been using tagged TLBs (as well as other TLB managing techniques) for eons. Heck, I think the MIPS R4000 had it in silicon almost 2 decades ago. Commercial AMD64 procs have been using tagged TLB designs for a while too.

Many processor architectures such as MIPS have had tagged TLBs for a long time, but x86 has not. Intel and AMD have only recently started introducing tagged TLBs, any they are not fully used yet.

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RE[5]: This is cool.
by tylerdurden on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:24 in reply to "RE[4]: This is cool."
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2009-03-17

I think Xen and whatnot have been using/expecting tagged TLBs for a while now.

AMD64 has had tagged TLB literally from the get go. Pacifica and whatever it is Intel names their hypervisor technology have been around for a while too and expanded on that. I think you may be referring to things like nested page tables and such.


Further, x86 allowed for software management of certain TLB functions, as to make a more informed request for a TLB flush.

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