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From: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:00 +0400
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On Thursday 18 October 2007 14:44, you wrote:
> Sorry, this is against arch/ppc which is bug fix only.  New features
> should be done against arch/powerpc. 

 Understood. The situation here is that the boards, which required these
modifications, have no support in the arch/powerpc branch. So this is 
why we made this in arch/ppc.

> Also, I'd rather see something along the lines of hugetlbfs support instead.

 Here I agree with Benjamin. Furthermore, IIRC the hugetlb file-system is
supported for PPC64 architectures only. Here we have PPC32.

> josh

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