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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix 68k queries
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Date: 19 Oct 90 09:07:27 GMT
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I am pretending to be an 68k guru, but nevertheless....

1.) Kernel ROMable.... hmm, if you put the data segment into RAM, this
    might go, but you have to initialize the data segment (in RAM) from
    ROM tables.

2.) 1K/task: return addresses are 32 bit on an Atari (so are pointers), that
    is twice as much as on PC

3.) contiguous memory: not needed, but you have to change that memtable
    initialiation in MM, which takes a single chunk. It is not possible to
    segment a process!

4.) Relocatable kernel: The kernel itself is relocatable and gets relocated
    by the build utility when creating an OS image for a fixed address,
    (0, in the common cases)
    you can relocate the kernel for other addresses, perhaps at boot-time,
    but you have to change the brain-damaged definition of the interrupt
    vectors (sorry, Frans) as a pair of two 16-bit values (these won't get
    relocated properly.

Christoph van Wuellen.