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Pagesize, was Re: [f-cpu] TLB design



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Hello,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Michael Riepe wrote:

> > > With 4K pages, we will have 6 bits left. Some (or all) of them may be
> > > used to indicate the page size.
> > That's a really nice idea in fact. But what did this bit mean, are they
> > number of Ko for a page, or predefined size page ?
> 
> Anything you like. I'd say: pagesize = 4K << sizebits; but that is my
> personal opinion.

Why not full/more configurable? Is there any problem with a
bootstrap-code for adjusting pagesize?

IMHO the CPU should be programmable as it can, because there will be
different tasks to be handled.


Bye Andreas
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