Re: debug=mem works now

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I know now why debug=mem wasn't working. It calls amiga_chip_alloc(),
> which calls request_mem_region(), what doesn't work yet at that time yet.
> I had the same problem for amiga_init_sound(), that I could easily delay,
> but for debugging output we need that memory as early as possible.
> Right now I simply don't call request_mem_region() when mem_init_done
> isn't true yet, but somehow I don't like this. Anyone any better idea?
> Anyway, debug=mem is now usable again...

So on APUS that doesn't work? On m68k (I have to admit using an older kernel)
the request_mem_region() just fails.

Usually the solution is to provide your own struct resource and call
request_resource(&iomem_resource, &my_resource) for `early' resource
management.

I'll try to cook an (untested) patch...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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