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Re: calculating physical memory address

On 11/8/05, pkirsch@xxxxxxxxxx <pkirsch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hey,
>
> can somebody tell me, which function translates the real physical memory
> address to the linear logical address.
>
> thanks.

Are you talking about the translation that occurs each and every time
RAM is accessed?

That is done in hardware.  CPU asks for a logical address, MMU
converts that to a physical address on the fly.  Details are
architecture specific.

Greg
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