Hello again, I made some more tests trying to boot the 2.6.26 kernel with various options (I have 14MB ST-RAM and 64MB Fast-Ram, and using one of the initrd.gz ramdisks).
-s seems mandatory (load kernel in st-ram), but booting is very slow (takes several minutes to reach rootfs mount). It should work when loading kernel in Fast-Ram and should be much faster. Does the kernel copy itself to FastRam before executing? The ramdisk also seems to be loaded in ST-RAM (has the Atari tos screen is filled with some decompressed data while booting). The initrd decompressed is around 8MB (is it also decompressed or copied to Fast-Ram?). If you add the kernel in st-ram (don't know how much it is decompressed), 14MB may be a bit short. Starting ataboot.tos with stuff taking some st-ram (like usual TOS utilities, or higher resolution than 320x200x16 colors for example) prevent the kernel from booting correctly (not enough ST-Ram to unpack it and the ramdisk I suppose), hence the reset I got previously. I think using the Fast-Ram should be the default for CT60. I don't remember on which hw it would cause problems (due to MMU remapping). About the installer: - Running with atafb:sthigh makes it unusable, as the selection is not visible (no inverse video). - libbogl lacks the Atari bitplanes support (running with fb=false makes it work) but it should be easy to add. -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
