Subject: Re: Kinetic speed test
To: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/16/2000 00:21:26
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:24:55PM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > kinetic card:
> > 64MB of sdram (or which 60MB available, 4 MB is locked off it seems)
>
> Do the kinetic cards copy the RISC OS ROM into RAM, and then map that back
> onto the same memory where the ROM was? If so, that might be your locked
> 4M.

It's something like that...

> > This might actually improve is I had a smaller simm to try out as it'd
> > start to use the kinetic ram sooner.  Crossed my mind that the figures
> > might be
>
> can you boot on a 2M simm if you had one?

I think you can, my problem is the RapIDE card does DMA (I suppose I could 
plug in my 4 slot backplane, DMA can only happen on the lower 2)

The figures are more for general interest than hard figures :)

Cheers,
Chris