Re: Atari TT

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 01/05/12 10:44, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>> Alan Hourihane dixit:
>>
>>> The TT has 4MB STRAM and 128MB TT RAM.
>>             ^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> The kernel, framebuffer, several I/O buffers, and probably
>> the ramdisc and what?s left from TOS/GEM before Linux takes
>> over all has to fit into it.
>>
>> I can verify that Linux 2.6.39 and 3.0 do NOT boot with only
>> 4 MiB of ST-RAM.
> I booted Linux 3.1-rc5 with a BusyBox initramfs on a 4 MB PowerBook 
> recently. I had to create minimal configs for both, but it did indeed boot 
> to a shell prompt.
>
> The kernel (with initramfs) was loaded by Pengiun within the free RAM 
> availble under System 7 so I imagine this scenario isn't much different to 
> the TOS/GEM scenario but I have no experience with Atari hardware. YMMV.
>

But we now know that STRAM isn't the issue. The bootloader can handle
loading this into FASTRAM.

Just vertical lines and no serial console has stalled me. So I'm messing
with the git trees to get back to some sane atari_scc.c code.

Alan.