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		nickik on Jan 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3 There is actually quite a bit of work going on in Linux without MMU. Check Linux Plummers conference RISC-V track for example.

Taniwha on Jan 4, 2020 [–]

Yeah that's why I said "really needs", there are cut down versions that will run without an MMU, it's not really the mainline Linux though - I've worked with MMUless kernels in the past, it's not a lot of fun (and I started porting V6/V7 for base and bounds swapping machines)

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