Subject: Re: NetBSD/pdp10 ?
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/05/2002 17:44:53
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:14:54PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
> | What better way to exercise the portability of NetBSD?  We've got 32-bit
> | and 64-bit archictures sorted.  Certainly there would be some challenges
> | left with 36-bit support, no?  Given the availability of several PDP-10
> | emulators and the work on GCC, I don't see why it couldn't be done.
> 
> Lack of a real MMU is probably going to cause problems, especially since
> UBC requires MMU functionality.

I guess you could emulate a slightly enhanced pdp10 that did have an
mmu!

OTOH you could write an mmu elulator (within the pdp10 kernel)
and make sure that your pdp10 emulator emulated the mmu emulator
efficiently...


	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk