PMMU (was: Re: Eagle (Was: GEMDOS from VBL))

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> JES>But what's the big deal in running MiNT first? I think it works very
> JES>well the way it works now, and don't see any point in changing it. Are
> JES>there any good reasons for doing this?
> 
> 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 :-)

Why the Afterburner needs PMMU to access fast RAM? Perhaps to keep the
patched TOS happy thinking that it is at its usual address? If so, your
patched TOS 4.04 shouldn't need PMMU tricks.

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