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Re: [MiNT] MMU usage in MiNT, fork/mmap



Hello!

I know MiNT can "use an MMU", or so people have sworn to me, but last I
knew this was only for memory protection, but it did not provide a
virtual address space for applications.

Yes.

This means that a proper fork() is next to impossible,

A proper fork() is for sure possible. It's just not very efficient (that's why shell scripts (for example configure) are so slow (they use heavily fork()).

So .. my question .. whats the current state of MiNT and its MMU usage?
Can completely different pages of real memory be mapped to same address
in different processes?  If not, is anyone working on this?

Where is no virtual memory subsystem in FreeMiNT yet :-/


Regards,
Frank

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