Hi I just got sparsemem working on our MIPS 32 platform. I'm not sure if anyone has done that before since there seems to be a couple of problems in the arch specific code. Well I realize that it is blazingly simple to turn on sparsemem, but for the idiots (like myself) out there I created a howto file to put in the Documentation directory just because I thought it would be a good idea to have some official info on it written down somewhere. it saved me a ton of space by the way. it seems to work great. Mike