Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:13:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-) Message-ID: <20050331111307.72833.qmail@web52703.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: [snip] > > An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very > worthwhile, even if it > requires a radical divergence from the original > codebase. I was woudn''t it be rather inefficient (in the BEST case) -handling numerous memory contextx -1 per process? > hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD, > but that doesn't > seem to be the case. > > Scott They have taken a conscious decision not to work in that direction -as it would screw up their overall s/w architecture in accomodating that port [if they do manage to get a non-mmu port ready]. regards -kamal > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant kamalp@acm.org In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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