[MiNT] http://learn.to/quote Was: Memory protection on Afterb urn ers

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@Vital.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Guido.Flohr@t-online.de [SMTP:Guido.Flohr@t-online.de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:59 PM
> To:	MiNT mailing list
> Subject:	Re: [MiNT] http://learn.to/quote Was: Memory protection on
> Afterb urners
> 
> > The fact that I'm not the only one with this problem indicates that it's
> not
> > my AB that's broken, but FreeMiNT's AB-compatibility.
> 
> Or AB's Atari compatibility ... ;-)
> 
> Well, anything with a 040 won't be very compatible with any Atari when it
> comes to MMU-related stuff anyway...
> 
> I have seen a lot of complaints about AB misbehavior with memory
> management in general.  Maybe it was only too obvious to me (and not to
> 
> Memory protection seemed to work without problems (atleast no more
> problems than my TT) with 1.15.5 and 1.15.6. It's just with the two more
> recent kernels I've used (1.15.10 and 1.15.12) I've had problems. I don't
> know what you mean by "misbehaviour with memory management in general",
> but I haven't had any particular problems related to this. Perhaps you're
> thinking about the reset-problem? The AB-driver remaps the fast-RAM to
> look like a continuous chunk of TT-RAM. MiNT then installs a new
> reset-handler, when you reset the MMU-tree is destroyed and the
> reset-vector points to nomans-land.
> 
> I hope you (and Rodolphe) accept my apologies.  I was really too rude,
> sorry.
> 
> I wasn't offended, so no apology needed in my case :-)
> 
> Jo Even Skarstein


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