Re: [hatari-devel] emutos 0.8.5 not working ?

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/12/2011 23:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:32:50 +0100
> schrieb Nicolas Pomarède<npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On 18/12/2011 19:35, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > Maybe it's because of the changes to memvalid variables? have you
> > > tried with fastboot enabled?
> >
> > yes, turning fastboot on fixes the problem. Does it means emutos
> > always requires memvalid variables even, if using less than 4MB (2 MB
> > in my case) ?
>
> EmuTOS' memory test in 0.8.5 relied on the mirroring effect of the
> memory banks of the ST that Hatari does not emulate yet. In EmuTOS
> 0.8.6, the memory test has been improved so that it now also should
> detect the memory right when there is no mirroring effect available.
>
> So if you badly want to get 0.8.5 running without fastboot again, then I
> guess you've got to implement the mirroring effect in Hatari, too ;-)

No, I don't really need it, it's just the most recent version I had to 
do some tests.

But if fastboot is required with emutos 0.8.5, maybe we should add a 
test in stMemory.c or tos.c to force memvalid when emutos is <= 0.8.5 
and FastBoot is not enabled ?


Nicolas