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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:47:33 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        davidg@Root.COM, koshy@india.hp.com
Cc:        gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Willows
Message-ID:  <199602060247.NAA16062@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>On this topic; do we support the P5's 1MB page size?  This could reduce

>   No, we don't support variable page sizes and we're not likely ever going to
>support them due to architectural constraints in the VM system (and I'm not
>interested in changing this because of performance considerations).

I think Linux supports them, and that they are good for mapping the kernel.
Can the FreeBSD kernel (text and statically allocated data) be specially
mapped without interfering with the general VM code?

Bruce



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