On 08/02/2013 09:02 PM, Christos wrote: > >>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:aph@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > >>On 08/02/2013 06:06 PM, Christos Tsopokis wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:aph@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > >> > >>> And why do you think that there must be a way to achieve it? If it > >>> exists, it's in that manual. > >> > >> Well, it's obviously more complicated than that. When I refer to APIs, I > >> refer even to the information the manufacturers provide. > > >Indeed, that's what that manual I provided is. > > Exactly, and because the manufacturers do not provide some instructions > for something like that (at least I didn't manage to find one), then you > have to play directly with MMU. ;-) And how do you propose to play directly with MMU? In a way that isn't described in the manual? > >Again, I don't believe that what you seek exists, and I can think > >of good reasons why it doesn't. > > If you look carefully Oleg's answer (or even in the link I provided a > few hours ago) you will see that in some architectures it does exist. Sure, but I'm talking about readily-available CPUs that you might have in your desktop computer. Were you not? Andrew.