If I don't active the page mechanism

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 04:41:17 EDT 2012


Hi..

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Fan Yang <lljyangfan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>     I have a problem,  if i don't active the page mechanism just use the
> segment mechanism at the x86 cpu, how can I manage the Multi-tasking?

multitasking and memory management are not directly related IMHO, but
you're right that we need process address space switching.

I think what you're going to do is already done by Linux kernel port
to non MMU  architectures. Can't recall which ones, so try to check
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_unit for further
examples


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Mulyadi Santosa
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