From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Stehlik Subject: Re: Aranym, more than 244MB FastRAM, garbled display Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:11:22 +0200 Message-ID: <1286457082.1687.52.camel@joy-desktop> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mta.inext.cz ([212.111.0.11]:4318 "EHLO mta.inext.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750719Ab0JGQOq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:14:46 -0400 Received: from inext.inext.cz ([212.111.0.10]) by mta.inext.cz (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAC229 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:11:23 +0200 Received: from mx.inext.cz ([212.111.0.12]) by inext.inext.cz (SMSSMTP 4.1.0.19) with SMTP id M2010100715112317423 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:11:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Schmitz Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Michael Schmitz p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v Thu 07. 10. 2010 v 09:47 +0200: > >>> Args =3D root=3D/dev/hda1 console=3Dtty debug=3Dpar video=3Datafb= :vga2 > > > >>The problem starts happening as soon as FastRAM >=3D 512. > > > > I suspect atafb:vga2 reduces the amount of memory needed enough > > for it to work. >=20 > Certainly - 640x480@1bit isn't much. Even less than sthigh IIRC. sthigh is 640x400@1bit, I believe, i.e. even less than vga2. > I wonder why it does depend on FastRAM size, though. ST-RAM eaten up > by page tables? why anything is stored in ST-RAM? Besides there's 14 MB of ST-RAM on ARAnyM, that should be plenty (compare with Falcon's 4 MB). Petr