Re: Move to unshared VMAs in NOMMU mode?

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 13 2007 - 06:15:46 EST


Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We (noMMU) folks need to have special code anyway - so why not put it there,
> and try not to increase memory footprint?

I'd like to have the drivers and filesystems need to know as little as possible
about whether they're working in MMU-mode or NOMMU-mode - for the most part
such knowledge should be unnecessary. Additionally, I'd rather not put special
case code in the generic parts of the NOMMU code.

David
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