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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:57:16 -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:  <200112140757.fBE7vGM50995@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:43:52 CST." <20011213214352.C597@bsd.havk.org> 
References:  <20011213214352.C597@bsd.havk.org>  <20011213174347.V597@bsd.havk.org> <200112140119.fBE1JgM49561@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20011213214352.C597@bsd.havk.org> Steve Price writes:
: On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:19:42PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: > Hard.  Lots of stuff relies on mmap, which basiclly requires an MMU or
: > other tricks.  The other tricks can be somewhat expensive...
: 
: That's sort of what I figured.  WRS and possible others use BSD
: as a basis for their embedded OS on archs without an MMU, right?

Not sure.

: Got any pointers to these "tricks" you talk about?  Thanks.

Maybe the easiest way to find out about them would be to look at the
uclinux stuff.  It uses them.

Warner

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