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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:05:04PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

    On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:57:11PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
    wrote:

    >
    > What about 2M pages?

    They are not supported for user space, but used in private
    mappings for kernel text and direct memory mappings. Generic code
    never sees them.

Is there any reason we couldn't use them for mapping large
frame-buffers and similar?



  --cw