Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:36:29 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page size flexibility in FreeBSD VM? Message-ID: <199807121336.GAA07869@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:46:35 %2B0200." <199807120946.LAA03600@semyam.dinoco.de>
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>While reading the VM source I was wondering about how flexible it >shall be with regard to the page sizes used. Is the goal just to >support 4k pages and if that works it is good enough or shall it be >more flexible if one wishes to use smaller or larger pages? > >The actual mapping in pmap.c of course has to cope with hardware >restrictions. My questions is just concerned with the machine >independent part. 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. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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