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Re: [PATCH] HACK: Atari ST-RAM allocator using fixed pool of bootmem



On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:

>> The latest d-i images seem to require aranym FastRAM to be 48M which
>> invokes low memory mode. I'd rather not have to go there. :)
>
> Well, that kind of rules out installing on a TT ever again...

We like to support *real* hardware. :)

> Did you try whether this patch actually does require the maxdma patch as  
> well? I'm unsure about that right now.

It's not listed by that name in debian's 2.6.25-5 patch list. So I can't
say whether it was merged or Christian picked it up else ways.

> Anyway, the patch seems to be required for ramdisk use, so I better clean 
> it up one way or the other. Geert - do we need to be able to free  
> allocated ST-RAM? Otherwise, I'd just remove the dead freelist stuff and  
> submit that.

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>

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