Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT MMU usage define

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

Whoever does this would be an ideal candidate to implement virtual memory, demand paging, etc.  I wanted to do this and am even studying BSD VM and 68k assembler but I haven't managed to put two and two together and figure it all out.

Thanks,
Mark




On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:

> Paul Wratt wrote:
>> How much work do you gauge there to be in getting MMU support for CF..
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> I see in the FreeMiNT sources that there are already 2 different implementations of MMU support: mprot030.c and memprot040.c. Both files are about 1500 lines. Someone would have to read and understand those 2 files, as well as the ColdFire's manual chapter related to the MMU... Certainly doable, but that would require some deep understanding.
> That would be nice, but not mandatory at first.
> 
> Also, on the FireBee the MMU is already used to emulate the standard Falcon memory map, it would not be easy to share it with FreeMiNT :-\
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> Vincent Rivière
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