From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA29470 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 05:54:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 11:53:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [Q] MMU & VM In-Reply-To: <19980904002057.A5268@ds23-ca-us.dialup> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Graffiti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Graffiti wrote: > 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? Well, there's Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems". There's also a nice VM tutorial from CNE/CMU(?), which is linked to from the Linux-MM homepage, VM Links. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/mm-patch/ Rik. -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org