From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
Cc: Liste ELKS <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ELKS on Amstrad PPC 512
Date: 19 Nov 2002 13:13:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037711632.11541.18.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021118213045.A46708-100000@agora.rdrop.com>
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 05:33, Dan Olson wrote:
> It took me a minute, but I finally figured out what makes this system
> "different" enough that it won't run ELKS, it only has 512k of RAM! This
> may not mean that it's impossible to get ELKS running on this system, but
> the pre-compiled versions of the OS expect 640k or RAM. I suppose someone
> else can better answer this, but I believe there is a kernal option that
> can be changed at compile time to use less memory. Being a laptop, I
> suppose sticking a little more memory on the bus isn't that easy (on a
> machine with ISA slots, a memory board could be added).
The code setup and loader stuff assume 640K. It should certainly be
fixable
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2002-11-19 5:33 ` ELKS on Amstrad PPC 512 Dan Olson
2002-11-19 13:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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