Re: C64 MMU POC

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 09:18:41 -0500
Message-ID: <c0cfa77a-27cd-2e66-6320-3b28ac80f47d_at_jbrain.com>
On 7/8/2019 7:45 AM, silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote:
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>> On 2019-07-08, at 07:27, Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com> wrote:
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>> I'd like to play around with MMU design on the C64, and wanted to ask for additional thoughts:
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>> 	• What "page" size would folks recommend?  4K, 8K, 16K?  User defined (much harder to implement, but maybe possible)
> 4K for code, 8K for gfx comes to mind. Having it selectable (between the two - as opposed to arbitrary size) could be a nice option too.
Making the size configurable adds a ton of complexity, so I doubt it 
makes sense for 4K->8kB.
>
>> 	• Where would be a good spot to put the config registers in the 64 memory map?
> There's never a good spot for that kind of things :-) but I'd probably tend to go right behind CIA2.
I am constrained, in that the registers are in "RAM" space, so they 
would only be visible when RAM is mapped in.
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