On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Note that the default pagesize on IA64 is 16K and some important things
> > would change if a lesser size is selected. I have never run a 4K kernel.
> > I do not think we can just say that 4KB is okay. There may be other
> > platforms that have other default page sizes.
>
> If we can't just say that it is OK, then we should probably disable it
> in Kconfig. Should we do that?
Well, we cannot disable 4K support for all platforms, so I guess this
refers only to IA64.
IA64 can certainly be build with 4K support. I am not sure how well user
space tools play with it. Better leave it selectable unless others on
linux-ia64 have something to say on the issue.
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