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- On Dec 12, 11:23am, Stefan G. Berg wrote:
- > I just got vmunix720 from eunet and also updated my loadbsd and /bin
- > and /sbin directory with the new archives. It boots all right and
- > seems to work just fine except that the display is almost unreadable.
- > I am getting some 80x100 characters in some kind of green/pink color
- > combination. What is this, mega-interlace? :-)
- >
- > I noticed that some other people have the same problem, is there a fix
- > for this? I am running on a standard ECS Amiga 500 with PPI040 and GVP
- > controller.
-
- It's a problem with the new cc console stuff that tries to set up the
- display for the A2024. The quick fix is to binpatch _ite_default_height
- to 400.
-
- > One other thing. With the new loadbsd program I can finally make use
- > of my 32 bit memory, correct? Do we have a manual for the new loadbsd
- > program somewhere? I don't have a clue as to what the new options
- > mean. Basically I have 8MB of 16 bit Fast RAM and 4MB of 32 bit Fast
- > RAM. Under 713 the 32 bit Fast RAM was completey ignored which did
- > wonders when compiling (talking about an afternoon to compile tcsh!).
-
- Nope - not yet :-(. Someone will need to make the changes to amiga_init.c
- and pmap.c to handle non-contiguous memory if you want to use all the fast
- memory. The new loadbsd just passes all the memory segement information
- to the kernel, but the only thing the kernel can do with it at the moment
- is attempt to use the 16-bit memory as a DMA buffer for the A2091 and GVP11
- scsi drivers [and I need to rethink how to do the GVP11 stuff now that I
- know that some GVP11 controllers can use DMA with 32 bit memory].
-
- I put an option in loadbsd [-p, I think] that was going to force loadbsd
- to use the highest priority fast memory segement instead of the largest,
- but I didn't change the code to actually do it yet. In your case, that
- would only give you the ability to run NetBSD in the 4M 32 bit RAM - in
- which case the only use that could be made of the 16 bit memory would be
- as a DMA buffer for the GVP controller.
-
- Michael
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