Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:42:24 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page size flexibility in FreeBSD VM? Message-ID: <199807121642.JAA20283@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:08:14 +0100 (BST) Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote: > To add to that, I only found one minor bug in the machine-independant > parts of the kernel that was caused by the different page size of the > alpha platform. I would not expect to see any problems with page sizes > other than 4k/8k, within reason. You guys want to run on the UltraSparc, right? The MMU found on that puppy doesn't really have the notion of "page size" ... (well, sort of; the TLB is much like the R10000's, in that the reach of a given TLB entry is configurable per-entry...) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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