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about the memory management in NiosII

I have a problem about memory management problem for the processor without MMU. It is easy to know the mechanism when binary code running on the processor directly without OS. All the addresses are p...
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originally posted by ken@Oct 27 2004, 12:13 PM

um, not sure if i'm entirely correct on this but when running an os on the nios ii, the address are still physical. there is no mapping going that i'm aware of.

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Thanks! If all the address are phiscal, how the linux run multiple applications? If the applications are compiled separatly and the binary executables use physical address, how could multiple applications reside in main memory?

I am confused by this quesiton. could you tell me how the linux solve this problem?

thx!