<davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/16/1995 13:08:18
On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
> The 68020 in a Mac II needs the 68851 to run NetBSD. The 68030 and 040
> have built-in MMUs of their own. The 68030 MMU is quite similar to the
> '851. The 040's is different.
The first half, I gathered from this old book on the 020 and 030. The
040's is different, huh. What a drag. How drastic are the differences?
Does NetBSD use the PMMU/030 MMU to signal page faults, etc. for the
swap/virtual memory, or is it all handled with a table lookup scheme?
Later,
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