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From: Matjaz Breskvar<phoenix@o...>
Date: Mon Apr 25 22:27:02 CEST 2005
Subject: [openrisc] patches #74-#83
Hey,

Patches #74-#83 are all accepted.

Regarding the page size... Level 2 pages are always 8 KiB, though as you
noticed in hardware we could make that 4 KiB or more. It used to be 4 KiB
way back, but in the last round of architectural manual updates it was
decided to be 8 KiB (this way we also gain an additional bit, that can be
used for sw). Before linux port it wasn't a big deal, but at this point it
would be a quite a pain to change it to something different. Even so i think
that configurable page size in simulator is very useful for simulations and
some people might prefer different size (though they woun't be 100% compatible
with ORP)

Notice that there are also 'huge' (or are they called 'area') page tables,
which will probably be set in stone (somewhere in the neiburhood of 2 MiB)
in the next round of architectual updates.

best regards,
p.