Re: Atari Falcon network
Hi,
On 11/13/19 12:26 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
On 13/11/19 9:24 AM, Johny Five wrote:
Is it possible to run linux on stock Falcon?
No.
Linux v5.3 and minimal user-space (e.g. busybox shell as init)
can be run on Falcon with just 8MB of ST-RAM. I've tested
that in Hatari emulator Falcon emulation mode:
https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/plain/doc/m68k-linux-for-hatari.txt
Does the 14MB RAM update help?
Only for very old versions of Debian (pre-systemd).
I think that booting latest Debian to command line prompt, needs
nowadays something like 64MB of TT-RAM, mainly for initfs
(uncompressed it's quite large, and I think the compressed data
is also in RAM until uncompression finishes), but there are also
quite a few processes, tmpfs file systems, and full kernel takes
more memory too.
- Eero
PS. For testing Debian boot up needs, Aranym is better than Hatari.
Although Aranym emulates 040 instead of 030, it's close enough
to Falcon for most thing, much faster as it doesn't try to do
cycle-accurate emulation, and it doesn't have problems with
Debian.
When Falcon is equipped with CT60e + 512MB is there use of that 14MB
additional RAM?
Yes - if loading the kernel to that section of RAM. You probably don't
want to do that.
Some of the ST-RAM is still used when loading the kernel to the 512 MB
FastRAM section (for drivers that require ST-RAM either as DMA buffer or
video RAM). The rest is unused - recent patches to change the m68k
memory model ought to make it easier to use the ST-RAM as system RAM,
but there's still some bits missing.
Cheers,
Michael Schmitz
Dne út 5. 11. 2019 15:06 uživatel Stefan Niestegge <beetle@abbuc.de
<mailto:beetle@abbuc.de>> napsal:
Hello,
i can confirm that both, EtherNec (aka NetUSBee) and EtherNat work
for
Debian. NetBSD only supports EtherNec. SVEthLanA only works in
TOS/MiNT.
kind regards,
Stefan
Am 05.11.19 um 01:16 schrieb Michael Schmitz:
> Johny,
>
> both should be supported. NetUSBee through the 'ne' driver.
EtherNAT
> through the smc91x driver.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 5/11/19 11:32 AM, Johny Five wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what is recommended solution for network on Falcon?
>>
>> I have Falcon + CT 63 in desktop.
>>
>> Is Netusbee by Lotharek supported?
>>
>> EtherNAT is better probably but am afraid its very hard to get
one.
>>
>> Thanks for info
>
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