Re: [PATCH 0/4] Atari kernel-in-FastRAM patches, take three
Hi Michael,
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> do we know the size of the first memory chunk early enough in head.S?
> Maybe it's time to increase INIT_MAPPED_SIZE at least in cases where
> we know that there's more than 4 MB in the first memchunk ...
"get_bi_record BI_MEMCHUNK" will return a pointer to the first mem_info
struct.
If the first chunk is at least 8 MiB it should be not that intrusive.
If it isn't, and you have to use multiple chunks, it becomes more complicated.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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