Re: [Milkymist port] virtual memory management

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From: Johnny Billquist
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 19:52

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On 2013-05-29 21:17, Rhialto wrote:
> On Wed 29 May 2013 at 19:51:15 +0200, Yann Sionneau wrote:
>> 1�) some code somewhere generates an I(nstruction) TLB miss in the
>> MMU, this leads to a CPU exception, CPU then branches immediately to
>> the "ITLB miss" exception vector.
>
> (Side issue I've been wondering about: Why does almost everybody these
> days call their Address Translation Cache now Translation Lookaside
> Buffer?  Why prefer vague IBM terminology over a clear Motorola term?)

And why either, when the VAX already had a TLB back in the 70s, where 
TLB actually stood for TransLation Buffer. Why did someone feel the need 
to add a "lookaside", which is rather bogus. And I think Motorola came 
last to the table... :-)

	Johnny

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