Re: Improving Performance

[schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Geert,


> > Does the hack below (not even compile-tested) work? It maps pool_size
> > (default 1 MiB) of ST-RAM and makes the pool use that.
> >
> >   
> Sort of - boots with kernel in ST-RAM, but nothing shown on the 
> screen. SCSI appears to allocate DMA-able memory though:

Turns out the test for kernel in ST-RAM is faulty. I'll have to find a 
better test,

> atafb_init: start
> atafb_init: initializing Falcon hw
> atafb: screen_base 007f4000 real_screen_base 007f4000 screen_len 69632
> Determined 640x400, depth 1
>   virtual 640x870
> Console: switching to mono frame buffer device 80x25
> fb0: frame buffer device, using 68K of video memory

That's just the same behaviour as before, when the kernel was loaded to 
FastRAM.

Cheers,

   Michael