Hi Christian,
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 9:27 AM Christian T. Steigies <c...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:47:24AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:34 AM Ingo Jürgensmann <i...@2018.bluespice.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Am 04.12.2018 um 23:32 schrieb Johny Five <kox...@gmail.com>:
> > > > You mean A3000 or A4000 with some onboard/cpu accelerator FastRam +
> > > > ZorroRAM/BigRAM in Zorro3 slot?
> > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:23 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitz...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > anyone on this list with an Amiga running Linux that has both Zorro-II
> > > > and Zorro-III RAM installed, so would trigger the warning message:
> > > >
> > > > "%dK of Zorro II memory will not be used as system memory\n"
> > > >
> > > > early during booting the kernel?
> > > >
> > > > Would be nice to get Geert's patch (see
> > > > <20181204195014.21461-1-ge...@linux-m68k.org>) tested on such a system.
> > >
> > > Yes, this should be the same with the BigRamPlus extension, except that
> > > on Amigas the address scheme is of course different and Amigas will use
> > > memory priorities (the faster the memory is, the higher the priority is).
> > > ChipRam should be priority 0, normal (fake) FastRam is about priority 20
> > > or so while real FastRam on an accel board like Cyberstorm MK2 is about
> > > priority 40 or so.
> >
> > These priorities are purely a matter for AmigaOS, and do not apply to Linux.
> >
> > A proper test machine would be an A3000 or A4000 (or T variant),
> > equipped with a Zorro II expansion card that contains Zorro II RAM
> > (e.g. a combined SCSI/memory expansion card).
>
> I should still have a GVP Series-II SCSI controller with 8M RAM (my first
> expansion card, perhaps I can still find the huge 100MB disk I bought with
> it). I do also have an A3000, but this machine has no expansion card, ie
> only the built 030 CPU, 1(?)MB RAM, no harddisk, no NIC, ... so no Z-II RAM?
> But if we would place this card in crest or kullervo, we'd have a suitable
> test machine?
Adding the GVP Series-II SCSI controller with 8M RAM to the A3000 should
do the trick. You only need to build and boot a small kernel with
Amiga support.
Nothing fancy (no userspace) needed.
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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