Re: Eagle (Was: GEMDOS from VBL)

[Anthony Jacques <jacquesa@zetnet.co.uk>]

Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> > Yes, the memory protection and/or paging and/or virtual memory. Once
> > MiNT touches MMU the previous FastRAM disappears (most probably), all
> > resident programs hang and underlying TOS crashes :-)
>
> Good point. The question is what's the easiest way to solve this: Fix
> MiNT to run first in the auto-folder, 

This makes the (probably invalid?) asumption that all of the other
PMMU using drivers (ab040, etc.) are preserving all the previous
PMMU mappings - otherwise, bang goes the MP and VM, and you'd be
pretty lucky not to get a crash. 

I think that these drivers come into the category of "must run before 
MiNT" (if they dont preserve all previous PMMU mappings).

> or let MiNT's PMMU-code handle
> the previous PMMU-setup?

as far as I can see, this is the only way of safe way of handling this.

Anthony
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