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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 00:43:26 GMT
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- >|> >does memf_public also mean "non-swappable" for chipmem ?
- >|> What exactly do you mean? Cache? VMM?
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- >MMU stuff. swapping. to disk.
- >imho public means "dop not swap". but it is still cached.
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- Realy depens un the VMM handler you ar using i think.
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- >|> >This would mean we got to make each are which is acessed by blitter
- >|> >or copper dma public (while swapping out planemem would only cause
- >|> >wrong display but no problems).
- >|>
- >|> >All the c2p conversion buffers the blitter acesses, for example.
- >|> >this would include the screenbitmap then.
- >|>
- >|> >but, for cpu-only c2p, nothing needs to be protected...
- >|> >will allocraster() make the plane public so I can blitter on it ?
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- >|> >[ BTW allocraster is it legal if I alloc 8 times the size of one plane
- >|> >and just do 1 allocraster for 8 planes ? ;) ]
- >|>
- >|> >well, all of the questions are obsolete if chipmem is defined
- >|> >never to be swapped...
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- >|> >Any other things I got to care about to make my code run on future
- >|> >swappers (I heard there are already swapping programs. what about them ?
- >|> >"My program supports gigamem" I read. what does this mean ???)
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- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
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