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To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
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Subject: Re: Page size flexibility in FreeBSD VM? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:36:29 -0700
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>While reading the VM source I was wondering about how flexible it
>shall be with regard to the page sizes used.  Is the goal just to
>support 4k pages and if that works it is good enough or shall it be
>more flexible if one wishes to use smaller or larger pages?
>
>The actual mapping in pmap.c of course has to cope with hardware
>restrictions.  My questions is just concerned with the machine
>independent part.

   The goal is to be flexible enough to support our supported hardware
platforms. Right now, that would be Intel x86 (4K) and Alpha (8K) in the
future.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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