logoalt Hacker News

Rochuslast Wednesday at 12:00 AM2 repliesview on HN

How can it run when there is no MMU? Isn't this like rewriting a large part of the kernel?


Replies

peterustoday at 2:53 PM

This is for the recently released ESP32-S31 which does have a MMU, unlike the ESP32-S3.

The author has more details in this reddit post: https://eddrit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vait52/mmu_linux_on_the... And the docs section of the repo: https://github.com/GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux/tree/main/docs...

show 2 replies
yjftsjthsd-htoday at 2:51 PM

There is actually precedent for nommu Linux, though it obviously has tradeoffs.

show 1 reply