Subject: Re: pages.
To: Chris Hopps <chopps@emunix.emich.edu>
From: Alan Bair <abair@sol-tx.sps.mot.com>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 03/17/1994 10:43:20
Your goals sound very reasonable Chris and it sounds like a good thing to
do. The the following statements are ones I would consider to make the main
points in favor of your approach.
>
> Currently we use a page size of 8k. Almost *all* of the other ports
> use a page size of 4k. This is a very standard size even outside of
> NetBSD.
>
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>
> There is also equal or less physical space wasted on adjusting to page
> boundries for all proceses. (text data bss stack)
>
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>
> Everyone should realize that the i386 port of NetBSD runs comfortably
> in a 4M system. The amiga port does not. I do not wish to cater to
> The richest of Amiga owners, the spirit of the amiga is to provide
> power in the least amount of resource as possible I belive the NetBSD
> port should continue this in this.
>
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>
> My goal is for AmigaBSD to run on a 2M machine as well as it currently
> runs on 4M machine or better. With the pmap I will be 3/4's of the
> way there.
>
> Comments?
>
> Chris.
>
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