Subject: Re: KVA pitfall in initarm()
To: Toru Nishimura <locore64@alkyltechnology.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/05/2005 10:30:27
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 02:17, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> > - 16KB data segment base alignment bogs down a machine when new TLB layout
> >   gets active.
> 
> Arr, 32KB?

Yep.

Incidentally, 32K pages was used on legacy arm3 class devices (which had
a weird MMU).  But there's no need to go to that coarse a granularity in
the evbarm kernels.  I don't think we want to start supporting such
legacy devices in the evbarm port(s).

R.