In general is 14MB Ram usefull for something when I have ct60e? Am about to buy that Ram Expansion...
Dne st 13. 11. 2019 0:21 uživatel Eero Tamminen <o...@helsinkinet.fi> napsal: > Hi, > > On 11/13/19 12:26 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > On 13/11/19 9:24 AM, Johny Five wrote: > >> Is it possible to run linux on stock Falcon? > > No. > > Linux v5.3 and minimal user-space (e.g. busybox shell as init) > can be run on Falcon with just 8MB of ST-RAM. I've tested > that in Hatari emulator Falcon emulation mode: > > https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/plain/doc/m68k-linux-for-hatari.txt > > > >> Does the 14MB RAM update help? > > Only for very old versions of Debian (pre-systemd). > > I think that booting latest Debian to command line prompt, needs > nowadays something like 64MB of TT-RAM, mainly for initfs > (uncompressed it's quite large, and I think the compressed data > is also in RAM until uncompression finishes), but there are also > quite a few processes, tmpfs file systems, and full kernel takes > more memory too. > > > - Eero > > PS. For testing Debian boot up needs, Aranym is better than Hatari. > Although Aranym emulates 040 instead of 030, it's close enough > to Falcon for most thing, much faster as it doesn't try to do > cycle-accurate emulation, and it doesn't have problems with > Debian. > > >> When Falcon is equipped with CT60e + 512MB is there use of that 14MB > >> additional RAM? > > > > Yes - if loading the kernel to that section of RAM. You probably don't > > want to do that. > > > > Some of the ST-RAM is still used when loading the kernel to the 512 MB > > FastRAM section (for drivers that require ST-RAM either as DMA buffer or > > video RAM). The rest is unused - recent patches to change the m68k > > memory model ought to make it easier to use the ST-RAM as system RAM, > > but there's still some bits missing. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Michael Schmitz > > > >> > >> Dne út 5. 11. 2019 15:06 uživatel Stefan Niestegge <bee...@abbuc.de > >> <mailto:bee...@abbuc.de>> napsal: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> i can confirm that both, EtherNec (aka NetUSBee) and EtherNat work > >> for > >> Debian. NetBSD only supports EtherNec. SVEthLanA only works in > >> TOS/MiNT. > >> > >> kind regards, > >> Stefan > >> > >> Am 05.11.19 um 01:16 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > >> > Johny, > >> > > >> > both should be supported. NetUSBee through the 'ne' driver. > >> EtherNAT > >> > through the smc91x driver. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Michael > >> > > >> > > >> > On 5/11/19 11:32 AM, Johny Five wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> what is recommended solution for network on Falcon? > >> >> > >> >> I have Falcon + CT 63 in desktop. > >> >> > >> >> Is Netusbee by Lotharek supported? > >> >> > >> >> EtherNAT is better probably but am afraid its very hard to get > >> one. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for info > >> > > >> > > > >
