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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:00:14PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

 > AGP was fiddling around with something, which very well may
 > have been some kind of GART aperture for all I know about it, and needed
 > to use MMUPAGE_SIZE to think of its size correctly.

A lot of GARTs can only operate on 4KB pages. As long as this is kept in
mind, things should tick along just fine. Even those that can operate
with different size pages, we still treat as 4KB.
 
		Dave