From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 12 09:57:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAB17445 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17440 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA20283; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807121642.JAA20283@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug Rabson Cc: David Greenman , Stefan Eggers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page size flexibility in FreeBSD VM? Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:42:24 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:08:14 +0100 (BST) Doug Rabson 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