Re: [MiNT] kernel 1.15.10b fragmentation

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:31:57 +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:

>I have already wanted to ask if there's a Guide to Memory protected
>system or some exhaustive FAQ or TODO documentation for converting
>standard setup to MP friendly one. This should include discussion about
>all commonly used interprocess protocols (OLGA, AV, SE, DHST, BubbleGEM and
>who knows what else), all generally used programs (AESes, desktops, TSRs
>like fileselectors etc) and some general rules in case your
>favourite program is not working properly.
>
>I personally use very few applications regularly (Everest, aMAIL, Devpac
>and some more) but even some of these are not working with MP (aMAIL is
>one important example). Please remember that every unsuccesful trial&error
>requires power off/power on of my machine which is killing my hardware.
>That's why I would welcome some kind of documentation mentioned above.

The MiNT HYP on Draco's site does mention MP and gives tips to
coding with it at the programming level.  Prior to that,
the Atari Compendium was the most info on MP I've ever seen.
Great work on the HYP's Draco!

A more generalized doc would be interesting indeed.  The few times
I've tested my system with MP, often results in a search and seek
mission, trying to find the app at fault, cause often as you probably
already know the app that gets killed, is often not the one to blame.
Old or bad code from programs sending pointers to protected buffers
and the like.  I know I've done some tweaking and fiddling and
wished there was more info to.  I suspect often we who test MP
end up fighting with common apps such as st-guide.  ;-)

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