On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:40:57AM +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote: > V St, 28. 07. 2004 v 18:28, Stephen R Marenka pí?e: > > On the Atari, both ST-RAM and Fast RAM (TT-RAM) are used by Linux. Many > > users have reported problems running the kernel itself in Fast RAM, so > > the Atari bootstrap will place the kernel in ST-RAM. The minimum > > requirement for ST-RAM is 2 MB. > > Are you sure that 2 MB is enough? Considering that it needs to load the > bootstrap, the kernel image and also the ramdisk all to the ST-RAM? Or > is the ramdisk loaded to FastRAM already? The question is whether the > kernel itself fits into less than 2 MB of ST-RAM (it's not full 2048 kB > of free RAM, several hundred kB is already occuppied by TOS data > structs). I have no idea, these docs are old and in need of an update. The physical size of the kernel is 781842, what it needs beyond that on atari, I have no clue. Anyone? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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