[PATCH] ppc44x: support for 256K PAGE_SIZE

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Yuri Tikhonov writes:
>
>> The following patch adds support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x- 
>> based boards.
>> The applications to be run on the kernel with 256KB PAGE_SIZE have  
>> to be
>> built using the modified version of binutils, where the MAXPAGESIZE
>> definition is set to 0x40000 (as opposite to standard 0x10000).
>
> Have you measured the performance using a 64kB page size?  If so, how
> does it compare with the 256kB page size?

I was wondering about this as well?  Isn't this technically in  
violation of the ABI?

- k