Re: Kernel uses only half of Mac IIci memory with built-in video

2021-03-21 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Michael Schmitz wrote: > On 21/03/21 2:31 pm, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > > If Penguin then loads the kernel in that same chunk, there really is > > > no other choice? (The kernel expects the memory chunk it runs from > > > to be listed first in the bootinfo struct). > > > >

Re: Kernel uses only half of Mac IIci memory with built-in video

2021-03-21 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 02:19:10PM +1300, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Does any of this help with the problem of RBV Macs? Video RAM must start at > address 0x0, and reordering RAM to have the largest chunk at that address > would occupy the RBV video range and render RBV unusable? Can you even > rearr

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Miro, note that the libata driver for Falcon does not utilize interrupts due to the interaction between IDE, SCSI and floppy hardware, the latter two also making use of the ST-DMA chip which cannot be transparently checked for DMA completion. Instead, the libata driver polls for IDE comma

Re: Kernel uses only half of Mac IIci memory with built-in video

2021-03-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Finn, On 21/03/21 2:31 pm, Finn Thain wrote: If Penguin then loads the kernel in that same chunk, there really is no other choice? (The kernel expects the memory chunk it runs from to be listed first in the bootinfo struct). But finding the largest chunk and putting it first doesn't imply

Re: Kernel uses only half of Mac IIci memory with built-in video

2021-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Finn, On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:31 AM Finn Thain wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Am 19.03.21 um 12:49 schrieb Finn Thain: > > > AIUI, Penguin needs a large physically contiguous region, so it used > > > the largest pysical RAM chunk (which was bank B). But that alone >

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/21/21 9:49 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote: > I guess this is related also to the Atari platform: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210318045706.200458-1-...@lst.de/ ? No, it's not. > Or has Falcon/Milan/Hades been using libata already? Yes, I have pushed for the most important drivers to be convert

Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread Miro Kropáček
Hi, I guess this is related also to the Atari platform: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210318045706.200458-1-...@lst.de/ ? Or has Falcon/Milan/Hades been using libata already? Cheers, Miro