Hi Michael, On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Michael Schmitz <schm...@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote: >> Michael Schmitz <schmitz...@gmail.com> writes: >> > do we know the size of the first memory chunk early enough in head.S? >> > Maybe it's time to increase INIT_MAPPED_SIZE at least in cases where >> > we know that there's more than 4 MB in the first memchunk ... >> >> How do you know? You would have to reimplement the check paging_init >> does. > > I see - as a heuristic, we can probably assume that the first memchunk is > the relevant one, and especially in the case of FastRAM, also the larger > one. > Does this hold for Amiga/Mac/VME as well?
People want to run the kernel in the fastest memory chunk, which is typically also the largest (slow Amiga mainboard memory may be 2 - 16 MiB for Linux-capable machines, accelerator memory may be larger). Don't know about Mac, but I have some memories of interleaved banks and such... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMuHMdUeMv1R69vSLv0HZpKEgVpRUG_iMs=61jwvubbssn7...@mail.gmail.com