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Re: Is there any MMU support on eCOS?


>>>>> "Mehran" == Mehran Mirkazemi <Mehran_M1@Verifone.com> writes:

    Mehran> Dear All Sorry for asking this naive question, but am I
    Mehran> correct in assuming that eCOS does not use MMU
    Mehran> functionality provided by some processors to provide
    Mehran> application/task fire-walling?

    Mehran> I have not seen any mention of this support on the Red hat
    Mehran> site, but on another site some one mentioned that eCOS
    Mehran> supports MMU.

The model for a typical eCos system involves a single application,
linked directly with eCos. That application is likely to be
multi-threaded, but all threads run in a single address space. With
only a single application there is little point in setting up the MMU
to provide protection between applications :-) Some more information
can be found in the ecos-discuss archives, for example
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/1998/msg00062.html

For architectures where an MMU is built-in, eCos will either ignore
the MMU completely or, more commonly, perform just enough
initialization so that the system works and the application sees a
simple linear address space.

I am aware of efforts to make more use of MMUs,
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2001-03/msg00089.html.

Bart


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