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Cc: Ryan Stone <rstone@sandvine.com>
Subject: Re: Superpages (4 MB pages) support for x86?
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On Monday 20 November 2006 10:50, Ryan Stone wrote:
> I'm interested in making use of the 4 MB pages options in x86.  Has
> anyone done any work on this for FreeBSD?  I know that some work was
> done on superpages for the Alpha and AMD64.
> 
>  
> 
> If there's no prior work on this, I'll be writing it myself.  Does
> anybody know if the superpages work would contain anything useful for a
> x86 port?
> 
>  
> 
> Any hints or guidance would be quite welcome.

Alan Cox's superpages work also works on i386 I thought.

-- 
John Baldwin