On 09/01/12 00:05, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> I understand, but the STRAM allocator is broken. It gives out TT-RAM. It >> should never do that on a TT. > The ST-RAM allocator is used by a number of drivers, some of those > could actually use TT-RAM fine. But making the allocator fail instead > of returning TT-RAM would be an option.
Yes, adding a flag to say ONLY_STRAM would work. But the function itself is called atari_stram_alloc()/free(). And if that goes allocating TT-RAM there's a function name problem there. Very confusing. >>> You may have to pare the kernel down to the bare minimum (i.e. >>> modularize about everything you don't need to boot to initrd). Not >>> sure where the limit for this is these days. >> Already tried that. Still too big, because we need buffers from STRAM too. > What buffers? Filesystem buffers should be fine in TT-RAM. atafb > buffer requirement could be reduced by using a low-res video mode > perhaps (just to get past this point initially). > I'll try again as I probably didn't try after getting past the unexpected interrupt issue. Alan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
