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- Path: news.shlink.de!wiloyee!chaos
- From: chaos@wiloyee.shnet.org
- Subject: Re: Need MMU programming info for 68851,030,040
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- Organization: Studentenhochhaus Wedel Deutschland
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- References: <9601310022.AA00083@redalert.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:06:35 GMT
-
- Justin Lane (justin@redalert.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : I have a Motorola Programmers Ref Manual for the 68k family
- : of microprocessors but the section on MMU's only covers the
- : instructions by listing them in a table with no real explanation.
-
- this manual only covers the topics which are the same for all cpu's
-
- : Does anyone know anywhere on the net where I cound download a document
- : explaining the use of the MMU instructions so that I could dabble
- : with some virtual memory on my Amiga.
-
- the MC68030 users manual covers this topic entirely for MC68030, and there
- is an MC68040 users manual which covers the down-stripped MMU of the
- MC68040. these books alo cover caches, a very important issue, and if you
- need it clock cycles (not a trivial issue for the highly pipelined 68040)
-
- : I will be getting a 68030 and MMU soon (hopefully) and it would be a shame
- : not being able to program it.
-
- just avoid the 68030 EC
-
- : Thanks
- : Justin...
-
- dierk "chaos" ohlerich
-