| ▲ | matheusmoreira 5 hours ago | |
Genesis does what Nintendon't. > The lowly 68000 in the Sega doesn’t have a memory management unit required for the full Linux experience, so what’s really running here is a kernel compiled with the -nommu option. Huh... I thought Linux actually required MMUs. I was under the impression it'd never run on these old consoles because of that. Learned something new today. > A QEMU fork that emulates enough of the MegaDrive and the EverDrive to play with this without the real hardware is included. That's seriously impressive. | ||
| ▲ | cjd8 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
>Huh... I thought Linux actually required MMUs. I was under the impression it'd never run on these old consoles because of that. Learned something new today. There have been variants of the kernel around for some time that can run on microcontrollers without an MMU (mainly uCLinux). | ||