Re: Virtual Memory (Was Re: Kernel 1.14.7 available)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Mon, 25 May 1998, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> > 2 It can do memory paging even if virtual memory is disabled so no more fragmen
> >   tation.

Great! :-)

> > I think my patch should work ok on a TT, as this one as no Blitter,
> > unfortunately I have no TT and although I have relative diffs of my VM routs
> > I'm not sure these diffs will apply ok on a kernel more recent than my old one.

If you want to test it on the TT, then just send me the binary and
I'll test it for you.

> The only solution I can think is that the blitter should get permanently
> disabled if a sort of VRAM is active. That may be done by hooking a patch
> to trap #14 on Falcons, that would always disable the chip and return "no
> blitter" if inquired.

I don't think it's possible to get the Falcon VDI to work without the
blitter, so the only realistic solution is to replace the VDI with
either NVDI or fVDI.


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