On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Balaji Foss <balajig.f...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >Swap memory is concerned with paging. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging> > > Paging is part of Virtual Memory. Page tables maintain the mapping between > the Virtual Memory and the Physical Memory. > > >You have virtual memory in embedded system. > > Embedded systems generally dont have Virtual Memory because the access > times are non deterministic. > > Embedded system in general has variety of things. But i answered in the context of Embedded Linux. Linux needs virtual memory support with some exception like uClinux. Infact Virtual Address Space would be a better word than Virtual memory. -Krishna _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
