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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:19:42 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MMU-less FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200112140119.fBE1JgM49561@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:43:47 CST." <20011213174347.V597@bsd.havk.org> 
References:  <20011213174347.V597@bsd.havk.org>  

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In message <20011213174347.V597@bsd.havk.org> Steve Price writes:
: As a rough order of magnitude how hard would it be to port
: FreeBSD to an architecture (Motorola Coldfire) that doesn't
: have an MMU?  I see some words on their site that the NetBSD
: folks might be working on some archs that require this.

Hard.  Lots of stuff relies on mmap, which basiclly requires an MMU or
other tricks.  The other tricks can be somewhat expensive...

Warner

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