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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>,
	"Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Latest sources from CVS.
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:04:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021206190401.A7806@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021206172438.GJ23743@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>; from ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:24:38PM +0100

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:24:38PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> Maybe I wasn't clear about it, I meant kernels with 32 bit address
> space but 64 bit register width, allowing for userland N32 ABI.
> 
> E.g. the old DECstations with R4k CPU and limited memory would fit
> in this scheme. :-)

I'm considering kernels with just 2-level page tables as a step into that
direction.  With 16kB pages that permits for 64GB of virtual address
space, with 4kB pages; with a bit of tweaking we should be able to
maintain the ability to map 2GB in the userspace.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-06 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-04  8:34 Latest sources from CVS Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-04  9:09 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-12-04  9:09   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-12-04 13:04   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-05  3:34   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-05 11:14     ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-05 13:47       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-05 14:12         ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-05 14:27           ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-06 12:52           ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-06 13:07             ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-06 13:24               ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-06 13:24             ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 13:34               ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 13:41                 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-12-06 13:51                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 16:32                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06 16:45                       ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 17:01                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06 17:24                           ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 18:04                             ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-12-06 18:30                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06 18:41                               ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 18:58                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06 17:02                         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-06 17:15                           ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-06 17:34                           ` Greg Lindahl
2002-12-06 18:18                           ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-12-06 18:40                             ` Greg Lindahl
2002-12-06 23:17                             ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-06 23:33                               ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-12-07  0:00                                 ` Ralf Baechle

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