Re: new TOS PROM for Falcon040!

From: Jo Even Skarstein <joska_at_nuts.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 18:52:50 +0200

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> JES>Just a question: Is the patched TOS independent of fastRAM-configuration?
>
> Yes, I believe so. The TOS would not know about FastRAM.

So we still need a small program to remap the fastRAM and announce it
to TOS. Doug, could you adapt TK to a CPU-independent TOS?

> Yes, that's what I meant. The TOS will be CPU-independent, that's the
> most important thing. The _CPU and _FPU will probably be set to correct
> 68040 values. PMMU would be set to I don't know what. We will have to
> discuss and try out that.

I think the most important is to enable TOS to boot with a 060.
Software-drivers are needed anyway, let them handle the PMMU.


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