Letting userspace know the page size was IMO a design mistake.<p>Imagine a world where the page size is secret to userspace. Anything that needs page size alignment will be chosen by the kernel.<p>That in turn allows mixed page size, variable page size, heirarchical pages, etc.
So, <i>do</i> 4 KB page size apps work on these 16 KB page size phones? There are plenty of legacy apps (especially games I'd imagine) that will never updated for one reason or another. I would want to know if I was buying a phone that won't support those...