Re: Amigas with both Zorro-II and Zorro-III RAM?
Hi Christian,
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 8:27 PM Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 01:59:07PM +1300, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > no, that would still allow normal use of both FastRAM and RAM expansion in
> > the Zorro-III slot, from what I can tell (assuming the kernel is loaded to
> > FastRAM - thanks Ingo for the memory map).
> >
> > This is about testing kernel behaviour where Zorro-II RAM was excluded from
> > use as system memory, which worked fine up to conversion of m68k from
> > bootmem to memblock.
> >
> > We'd need both Zorro-II RAM and FastRAM (or Zorro-III RAM).
>
> So the A3k is booting. It has two SCSI disks, one of them I put into a PC so
> that I can copy the files required for the test. There is no Linux installed
> on the machine, just the basic AmigaOS3.1. Where do I get a kernel image
> (and meory map?) to test?
>
> There are already several expansion boards built in, I would need to shuffle
> them around for the GVP board, the memory modules are too tall to fit into
> the bottom slow. Is there a trick to pull out a board without taking out the
> bridge/raiser board first?
>
> In case video RAM is suitable for testing, maybe one of the already built-in
> board would do. There is an Ariadne, an S3 based video card it seems, and
> something which looks like a parallel and serial connector. On the next boot
> I should write down the IDs to identify the boards... would the video card
> be sufficient for the test?
>
> Just to make sure, a standard A3k has Z-III RAM (built-in)?
Yes, the motherboard RAM is Z-III.
In the mean time, I managed to test my patch on my A4000, and I have
sent out a new and improved patch, cfr.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181207165011.31497-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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