Re: Atari TT (next)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/01/12 23:39, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > > support. Is there a strict requirement (from the kernel's early
> > > startup and mem_init POV) that the kernel has to reside in the first
> > > bootinfo memory chunk?
> > It is a requirement that the kernel is mapped at virtual address zero
> > since it is not relocatable.
> That much I understand - but can we tweak the bootinfo to report the
> chunks in physical address order? What I mean to say is - does the
> first bootinfo chunk get mapped at virtual address zero always, or is
> there some check to see what physical address corresponds to the
> kernel segment?

> From what I can see the first mem_info struct is always mapped at VA 0
which is done in paging_init() in mm/motorola.c

Alan.


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