Re: [hatari-devel] Preparing release 2.3 / Slow IDE boot for Falcon

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/13/20 9:44 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 13/10/2020 08.34, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > Le 12/10/2020 à 22:41, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > > Slowdown is very large also with EmuTOS, so
> > > it would be better if there would be (also)
> > > a TOS version agnostic solution.
> > >
> > > Maybe "--fast-boot" option should disable
> > > IDE for Falcon when there's no IDE drive?
> >
> > yes, maybe just disabling the IDE IO registers might be enough to speed up
> > things in case --fast-boot is enabled.
>
> I think it's likely the best solution for the next release. It's the
> previous behavior with --fast-boot enabled, so this should not be a
> regression for anybody, and for people who need more accurate behavior, they
> still can disable fast-boot.

Thomas, do you have time to do it this week?


> After the release, we could still start experiments with TOS patches or
> other hacks.

	- Eero