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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 16:08:36 -0700
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>>    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.
>
>But if there is an obvious problem it won't be bad to remove it before
>someone tries other page sizes?  Low priority of course.  Or should I
>leave it alone till someone has a need for other page sizes to spare
>resources?

   You should leave it alone. We have plenty of real VM bugs to work on.

-DG

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

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