the supported virtual address width

hello, all

In tag of TLB, from the CHAPTER 13 of "OpenSPARC?T1 Processor Megacell Specification", the supported virtual address width is 35-bit. But in "UltraSPARC T1?Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005" , the supported width of VA is 48.

I don't know which is right.

In tag of TLB, besides the 35-bit virtual address, there is 13-bit context. what is context?

thanks.

[414 byte] By [linuxworld] at [2007-11-26 10:14:11]
# 1

Virtual address is 48 bits, but the TLB only uses 35 bits of it. Remaining

bits of Virtual address are not used by TLB.

Context is a set of translations that supports a particular address space.

UltraSPARC T1 supports 13 bit context IDs. Please refer to MMU

sections of UltraSPARC specifications for details.

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