Re: [MiNT] virtual memory

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de>]

Hello!

> Only if you use 256-byte pages. I would also suggect to have a page table
> per process ans simply switch the root pointers on taskswitch (which is
> expensive enough, since you have to clear the TLB).

Yes!

> A nice solution might be a new interface to the lowlevel drivers that passes
> physical addresses instead of the current virtual ones.

I suggested such extension. Would be nice to have a vector I/O operation
to do DMA directly to user space.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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