Re: 4level-2.6.9-1 released

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:04:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>I put a new version of the 4level page table patchkit at 
>
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/4level/4level-2.6.9-1.gz
>
>It extends the Linux VM to understand 4level page tables and extends
>the virtual address room of each x86-64 process to be 128TB (previously
>512GB) 
>
>The extension is quite straight forward without any significant
>redesign. The new level is called pml4.
>
>The patch needs some simple changes to all architectures.
>
>Changes compared to 4level-2.6.9rc4-2: 
>- Merged with 2.6.9 (release, not -final) 
>- Converted more architectures.
>
>Porting status:
>- i386   works with 2/3 levels.
>- x86-64 works with 4 levels.
>- ppc64  works with 3 levels
>- ia64   works with 3 levels
>- sh     converted, but was unable to compile because it's broken in mainline
>- ppc32  converted, compiles, not tested.

Tested on my ppc32 box. Survives booting and doing a kernel
recompile.

/Mikael
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