linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

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Message-Id: <1199309334.6751.30.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:28:54 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.


> > Can we please just nuke CONFIG_HIGHPTE?  There's only been a small
> > amount of 32bit machines with so much memory that they'd need it
> > and they can happily stay on the currently supported enterprise
> > distro releases instead of dragging this cruft around forever.
> 
> And all MMU-equipped FR-V machines with more than 256 MiB of RAM,
> according to arch/frv/Kconfig?

ppc32 uses that too when highmem is on.

Ben.

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