<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I have flipped back and forth on this one. Three things make me think that PMDTs might actually be the entries, not the table:<div><br></div><div>- NKv2 prints (plural) “Converting PMDTs to Areas”, and the correspondence between these two concepts is nearly 1:1</div><div>- The flag constants in the early Trampoline are all called PMDT_*</div><div>- The table already has a consistent name in Apple’s headers: the PageMap<br><br><div>On 24 Sep 2018, at 12:03 am, Max Poliakovski <<a href="mailto:maximumspatium@googlemail.com">maximumspatium@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>the abbreviation "PMDT" has already been clarified by René Vega as follows:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">elliotnunn @ReneVe6a<br>Still can't find what PMDT stands for. Page Mapping DescripTor? </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>Replying to @elliotnunn<br>Page Map Descriptor Table - contains a set of physical address and priv bits for a range of virtual addresses.</blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Let's fix this comment accordingly: <a href="https://github.com/elliotnunn/NanoKernel/blob/3e23e6348f77e5a28ebc7f3589b7c921c008b9d2/Defines.s#L145">https://github.com/elliotnunn/NanoKernel/blob/3e23e6348f77e5a28ebc7f3589b7c921c008b9d2/Defines.s#L145</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Max</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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