Re: GEMDOS from VBL

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

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> yes, that's exactly what I tried to point out. Imagine this: there is
> the TOS and several resident drivers that are already running in FastRAM
> when MiNT starts. MiNT is going to re-initialize PMMU - is it able to
> read and retain the old mapping? It would have to find out where the
> resident programs and TOS reside and this area of FastRAM should be not
> altered/paged out.

Like you I don't know how to program the PMMU, but I think it should
be possible to page the *free* alternate (physical) RAM and use the
old settings for the occupied alternate RAM. After all, there's not
much point in paging and swapping static TSRs anyway.


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