Subject: Re: Considering port to new processor
To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
From: Justin Wojdacki <justin.wojdacki.chiplogic.com@analog.com>
List: tech-ports
Date: 03/30/2001 09:51:18
Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> Good luck.  It is very hard to get Unix running on a machine without
> an mmu.
>

What functionality does the MMU generally need to provide to get UNIX 
running on a machine? 

> 
> You might want to post to port-mips@netbsd.org as well if it is mips.
>

It's kinda MIPS, but at the same time, not really (they expect
software implementations of the slower and patented instructions, and
they don't 
have licensing agreements with MIPS). But I'll check with port-mips
too. Thanks for the tip. 

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