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 -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/