Re: EMC Help

> From: William Scalione <scalione@...>

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> My computer has 48 meg of ram and parallel port at 378h, cyrix 6x86
> P-150+

Hmm, 48 meg and a Cyrix CPU...
...

> append="mem=47m"

This is OK
...

> I can run the frank zappa program

I'm pretty sure that the Frank Zappa test uses only fifos and not shared
memory

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> 7)run "insmod -v /usr/local/nist/emc/plat/rtlinux_09J/lib/steppermod.o
> SHMEM_BASE_ADDRESS=0x2F00000 PARAPORT_IO_ADDRESS=0x378" - I get error
> message "segmentation fault" (I am using 0x2F00000 for 48meg, is this
> correct?)

0x2F00000 seems right to me.

1. You may want to review the information at:
http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/

I'm wondering about the ARR (Address Region Registers) that are a Cyrix
specific feature.

From:
http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/p4.html

"Non-power-of-two amount of DRAM systems
In case your system has12Mb, 24Mb, 48Mb or 96Mb of total DRAM installed, you
will notice that ARR6 has already been setup by the BIOS for an unused memory
region."

This site also has kernel patches and a utility program available that
address Linux/Cyrix compatibility.

2. Another site that touches on related information is:
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/

3. Do you have a ChainTech 5ifm-0 motherboard? If so:
http://turing.suse.de/sdb/en/html/maddin_ifm0.html

Tell us more about your hardware!

Matt Shaver