On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote:
It does need to use the paging hardware, unless it's permanently running
in kernel mode. Mips has [k]useg from 00000000 to 80000000 in all
modes, which is paged and goes through the tlb. Only the kernel is able
to access higher addresses, which (partly) access unpaged memory.