From: deb@freebsd.org   
      
   Dear FreeBSD Community,   
      
   The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an   
   embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to develop   
   transparent superpages support for the FreeBSD/arm architecture.   
   Semihalf is co-sponsoring the project with the foundation.   
      
   The ARM architecture is already common in the mobile and embedded   
   markets, and is becoming more prevalent in the server market. Among   
   the more interesting industry trends emerging recently is the 64-bit   
   ARMv8 architecture, which as an "ARM server" concept. Many top tier   
   companies have started developing systems or are announcing products   
   with this architecture.   
      
   One of the features needed for FreeBSD to be successful in this area   
   is transparent super pages.  This provides improved performance and   
   scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover large   
   physical memory regions.   
      
   The project is expected to complete in mid July 2013.   
      
   The FreeBSD Foundation   
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