Re: NetBSD without MMU ?

"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> 
> [email protected] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> > > replacing fork()+exec() with spawn(),
> > > eliminating use of mmap, etc.)
> >
> > You don't _need_ an MMU to implement fork()....  (eg. as in MINIX)
> 
> MINIX uses the x86 segment registers to much the same purpose as an
> MMU. It is hard to do fork without any memory management at all.

See, for instance, Minix for the m68000, where they hacked up the 
compiler to generate base+displacement addressing so they could grab
a couple of address registers to use as the pseudo code and data
segments.

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