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@@ -68,9 +68,11 @@ page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state. The guest can
map this shared page using the KVM hypercall KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE.
With this hypercall issued the guest always gets the magic page mapped at the
-desired location in effective and physical address space. For now, we always
-map the page to -4096. This way we can access it using absolute load and store
-functions. The following instruction reads the first field of the magic page:
+desired location. The first parameter indicates the effective address when the
+MMU is enabled. The second parameter indicates the address in real mode, if
+applicable to the target. For now, we always map the page to -4096. This way we
+can access it using absolute load and store functions. The following
+instruction reads the first field of the magic page:
ld rX, -4096(0)
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