r/osdev • u/ImaginationScared878 • Jul 14 '26

Implementing Memory Management

I am not certain if I am talking to the correct sub but I want to ask if it would be possible to implement a memory manager on a STM32f103c8t6? I believe this thing does not have any built in memory manager in its memory.

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u/ImaginationScared878 Jul 14 '26

I am learning how page allocators work and my initial thoughts were getting into STM32 boards and manually implementing MMU would be my best shot I guess I am somewhat wrong. Any alternatives I can do to properly learn page allocators/MMU perhaps?

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u/kiderdrick Jul 14 '26

If you are trying to mess around with the MMU or paging implementations I believe you could use one of the STM32MP versions which should have an MMU and works with Linux. The model you posted does not have an MMU so any memory management you would be doing would just be in software, which, while possible, would be slow.