Re: no virtual memory

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 22:26:08 EST


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tulika Pradhan wrote:

> i want to build a kernel without virtual memory support. this is
> for a ppc based embbedded system. i read somewhere that VM can
> be disabled by setting the swap space size to 0. But where do i
> do this ?

Does the system have an MMU or not?

If it doesn't have an MMU, your best bet is to start from the
ucLinux code base.

Otherwise you can use the normal Linux code base and simply
run the thing without a swap area.

regards,

Rik

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