Re: MMU questions?

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

On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Doug Little wrote:

> >But the PMMU is already in use on the AB, to remap/write-protect the
> >RAM-image of the patched ROM, and to remap the fastRAM. Won't this
> >crash with other PMMU-stuff?
> 
> Yes, but only if the kernel is loaded into remapped-ram (FastRAM), otherwise
> the AB hacked TOS will suddenly vanish and be replaced with old TOS until
> Linux finishes setting itself up. No major problem there, so long as the
> caches
> are off while loading from SCSI in the meantime.

But what about MiNT? Would MiNT's virtual memory and memory-protection
work with TK-driver? There is usually a lot of stuff loaded before MiNT,
so even if MiNT itself is loaded into ST-RAM you would end up with lots of
problems, right?


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