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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:48:43 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        alc@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large virtual page size support.
Message-ID:  <43CD663B.6010703@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org>
References:  <20060117002541.I602@10.0.0.1> <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:

> Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
>> I have implemented support in the vm for PAGE_SIZE values which are a 
>> multiple of the hardware page size.  This is primarily useful for two 
>> things:
>
>
>
> Mach (and the VM system we inherrited from it) had this. I beieve it 
> was removed with teh comment
> "If we need this and someone is willing to support it it can be added 
> back" .


I can't see any record of it in our CVS files but I distinctly remember 
it in MACH. Not sure when it was
removed.

>
> It always seemed like in interesting idea and I'm happy to see that it 
> is still being looked at.
>



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