Re: Debian/Linux on Atari TT
Eero Tamminen dixit:
>I wasn't thinking that Hatari would be used for running the system,
>just help in debugging issues in getting it running.
Right.
>Issues where Hatari can help are unlikely to be dpkg related.
My idea was more to the point of testing the MMU, which
would, I think, involve doing some sort of workload.
>Hatari's main advantage over Aranym are more accurate (030) emulation
>and its debugger.
>
>I think Hatari would be best at investigating:
>- bootup problems
>- crashes that cannot be investigated at C-level
>- performance bottlenecks, mainly kernel because kernel it's
> at fixed address
Right, I can see its strengths there.
>All together the user-space processes take about 4MB of RAM.
>Then there's the amount of memory used by the kernel on top
>of that.
Oh, okay.
>Are there some processes at bootup which dirty MBs of memory
>at bootup and which quit before login (as I saw no such thing),
>or which memory map very large files?
I don’t think so.
>If not, I think bootup should fit well into 14MB (ST-RAM). :-)
Right. On the other hand, I heard rumours that Linux needs
TT-RAM to function at all, and that ST-RAM wasn’t available
to applications. That’s another reason I wanted the mailing
list in the loop, to confirm, deny or possibly fix that ;-)
>> The installation process is especially memory sensitive, as
>> it involves a ramdisk of lots of megs…
>
>Could you point to documentation describing it more in detail?
There’s none really, but you have a kernel and an initrd,
and the entire process runs from RAM. Wouter even did build
d-i images, but they’re not yet usable for various reasons.
>Linux memory usage analysis is one of my specialties.
Oh. Great, good to know!
Thanks,
//mirabilos
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