[Oberon] Large displays in Emulated RISC Oberon

[Charles Perkins]

Excellent! 

In my changes I had left the bootloader alone but an 'hardware' change such
as expanding the address space and moving the IO registers naturally suggests
re-linking the bootloader to match. Will you be re-linking 
the bootloader for your modified emulator?

In any case I look forward to downloading and working with the revised emulator.

Chuck

On Jun 17, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Peter De Wachter <pdewacht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16-06-14 01:16, Charles Perkins wrote:
>> Yes, what I did is most definitely a hack but it was the least invasive
>> one I could think of. I essentially turned a 1MB system into a 1.5 MB system.
>> I hope to turn it (at least the emulated version) into a 4GB system and I'm sure
>> some more things will break. But that's one reason I like the RISCV5 Oberon --
>> There's not much to it so it shouldn't be hard to fix whatever breaks!
> 
> I haven't looked at your patches in detail yet, but extending the 
> "address bus" in the emulator to 32-bit is pretty easy (and I've pushed 
> that change this morning). This moves the I/O registers and the boot 
> loader "out of the way". As the Oberon software is actually agnostic 
> about the size of the address space, it doesn't cause any compatibility 
> problems. I/O registers are always addressed using small negative 
> integers and therefore fall naturally at the end of the address space, 
> and the other memory parameters (stack, heap) are set by the bootloader 
> (the only exception is the address of the framebuffer).
> 
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