From: Graffiti <ramune@bigfoot.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [Q] MMU & VM
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:20:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980904002057.A5268@ds23-ca-us.dialup> (raw)
Hi all,
Before I ask my question, just to let you know, yes, I did look
for information on the web and various books to see if I could answer
this myself. Alas, no luck. Anyways, here goes:
Just how does an MMU work, and why do we need it to implement
virtual memory instead of handling it all in the kernel?
I've found quite a few texts on how VM works, but never why we
need an MMU or what an MMU does.
Can anyone recommend a good book on this?
-- DN (Learning 68000 asm as we speak. Now, for the Mac SE specs...)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-04 7:20 Graffiti [this message]
1998-09-04 9:53 ` Rik van Riel
1998-09-18 20:05 ` estafford
1998-09-18 22:00 ` Zlatko Calusic
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