Re: Atari TT (next)

Michael Schmitz
2012-01-09T00:05:38Z

Hi Alan,

> I understand, but the STRAM allocator is broken. It gives out TT-RAM. It
> should never do that on a TT.

The ST-RAM allocator is used by a number of drivers, some of those
could actually use TT-RAM fine. But making the allocator fail instead
of returning TT-RAM would be an option.

>> You may have to pare the kernel down to the bare minimum (i.e.
>> modularize about everything you don't need to boot to initrd). Not
>> sure where the limit for this is these days.
>
> Already tried that. Still too big, because we need buffers from STRAM too.

What buffers? Filesystem buffers should be fine in TT-RAM. atafb
buffer requirement could be reduced by using a low-res video mode
perhaps (just to get past this point initially).

Cheers,

Michael