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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Well, one reason might be memory footprint...

As of now the memory footprint of the kernel is large but userspace which
is all 32-bit software has unchanged footprint.  I've got plans for 2.5
to reduce the memory footprint of the kernel by introducing a 2-level
pagetable.

  Ralf

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On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Well, one reason might be memory footprint...

As of now the memory footprint of the kernel is large but userspace which
is all 32-bit software has unchanged footprint.  I've got plans for 2.5
to reduce the memory footprint of the kernel by introducing a 2-level
pagetable.

  Ralf