Subject: Re: NetBSD on non-MMU systems???
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/08/2002 15:22:52
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Todd Vierling wrote:
> Yes. Among the tasks that need to be done to make this happen:
>
> * rip out UVM and UBC entirely via #if conditionals, and replace with buffer
> cache only
Given that UVM and UBC are relatively new things to NetBSD, one has to ask
why UVM and UBC aren't already separated out.
> * rework toolchain to produce PIC code for all userland, including linked
> binaries
For some architectures (including the ARM), it is quite difficult to write
non-PIC code. Of course, the toolchain still manages it. :)
> I'd estimate that the above alone would take at least several months.
Yes it probably would. But arguably it shouldn't.
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