Re: Extending Leon-Sparc page table size to 32k

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From: "k e" <eiselekd@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:39:01 +0100

> > You have no choice in these matters, as indexing at each page table
> > level is determined by hardware.  What does Leon use with 32K pages?
> 
> Hi,
> I wrote the MMU in vhdl myself, so I would rewrite the hardware (vhdl).
> The Leon-sparc processor is a synthesizable core that runs on a fpga.

Well then I think what you should do is look at how the address space
looks for real processes, and use this information to figure out where
it would better to increase density.

I suspect making the PTE level tables denser would be the most beneficial.
But do not take my word for it :-)
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