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The current OS_Memory 7 implementation uses an address range structure
returned by HAL_PhysInfo to decide which part of the physical address
arrangement table to overwrite with RAM information. I suspect the
original intention was for OS_Memory to use this address range to avoid
marking the VRAM as DRAM (HAL_PhysInfo is expected to fill in the VRAM
itself). But by overwriting everything between the start and the end
address, OS_Memory will also overwrite any non-RAM areas which are
sandwiched between RAM banks, e.g. the VideoCore-owned RAM on Pi models
with >1GB RAM. There's also the problem that the address range returned
by the HAL is using 32bit addresses, so it won't work as-is for RAM
located above the 4GB barrier.

Fix these issues by reworking the routine so that it ignores the address
range returned by the HAL and instead detects VRAM by checking the
IsVRAM flag in the PhysRamTable entry. And for detecting if the ROM is
running from RAM, instead of using the address range we can rely on the
flag available via OS_ReadSysInfo 8 (i.e. HAL_PlatformInfo), like
OS_Memory 8 does.

Also add a simple BASIC program (Dev.PhysInfo) to allow easy checking of
HAL & OS physical address arrangement tables.

Version 6.41. Tagged as 'Kernel-6_41'

Version 6.26. Tagged as 'Kernel-6_26'

Detail:
Similar to HeapReason_GetAligned, GetSkewAligned is used for allocating
aligned blocks (with optional boundary limit). However instead of using
the logical address of the user portion of the block for the alignment
calculation, it uses an arbitrary offset specified in R5. This makes
it useful for clients such as the PCI module, which care about the
physical alignment of blocks rather than logical alignment.

Admin:
Tested with heaptest

Detail:
Kernel-5_44 tweaked the heap manager to try and avoid creating small
free blocks. Adjust HeapTest's block size checks so that it allows for
this behaviour.

Admin:
Tested briefly

Detail:
  This change gets rid of the following switches from the source (picking appropriate code paths for a 32bit HAL build):
  * FixCallBacks
  * UseProcessTransfer
  * CanLiveOnROMCard
  * BleedinDaveBell
  * NewStyleEcfs
  * DoVdu23_0_12
  * LCDPowerCtrl
  * HostVdu
  * Print
  * EmulatorSupport
  * TubeInfo
  * AddTubeBashers
  * TubeChar, TubeString, TubeDumpNoStack, TubeNewlNoStack macros
  * FIQDebug
  * VCOstartfix
  * AssemblingArthur (n.b. still defined for safety with anything in Hdr: which uses it, but not used explicitly by the kernel)
  * MouseBufferFix
  * LCDInvert
  * LCDSupport
  * DoInitialiseMode
  * Interruptible32bitModes
  * MouseBufferManager
  * StrongARM (new CacheCleanerHack and InterruptDelay switches added to hdr/Options to cover some functionality that StrongARM previously covered)
  * SAcleanflushbroken
  * StrongARM_POST
  * IrqsInClaimRelease
  * CheckProtectionLink
  * GSWorkspaceInKernelBuffers
  * EarlierReentrancyInDAShrink
  * LongCommandLines
  * ECC
  * NoSPSRcorruption
  * RMTidyDoesNowt
  * RogerEXEY
  * StorkPowerSave
  * DebugForcedReset
  * AssembleKEYV
  * AssemblePointerV
  * ProcessorVectors
  * Keyboard_Type
  Assorted old files have also been deleted.
Admin:
  Identical binary to previous revision for IOMD & Raspberry Pi builds


Version 5.51. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_51'

Detail:
  Revisions Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_153 and Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_161 merged with one
  trivial conflict.
Admin:
  Confirmed that this builds, but not tested on hardware.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.147.2.15. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_147_2_15'

The only fake result now is the hard ROM amount, which is hardwired to 4MB and might not be correct.
Unrelated changes
 hdr.HALDevice: Assign a device for VIDC20.
 hdr.KernelWS: Reorder into ascending order, remove legacy addresses.
 s.ARM600: Move PhysSpaceSize inside :LNOT:HAL switch.
 s.Kernel: Move PhysSpaceSize inside :LNOT:HAL switch.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.153. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_153'

Detail:
  TestSrc/HeapTest/c/testbed - Added missing semicolon
  TestSrc/HeapTest/s/asm - Include Hdr:MsgTrans for XMessageTrans_CopyError
Admin:
  Now compiles and runs properly!


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.129. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_129'

Improve heap manager. Add heap testbed. Add dummy implementation of some OS_ScreenMode reason codes.

Detail:
  s/HeapMan, hdr/KernelWS - Heap manager improvements:
    - Errors generated by interrupted heap operations that are forced to complete by a OS_Heap call from the background are now cached in kernel workspace until the foreground task is resumed. This prevents them from being potentially overwritten by MessageTrans running out of background error buffers.
    - Added new OS_Heap reason code, #7 - Get area aligned. This allows areas of memory to be allocated at specific (power-of-2) alignments, and optionally without crossing a given (power-of-2) boundary. Alignment & boundary calculations are performed using logical addresses.
    - Removed the limitation that all free and allocated blocks must be a multiple of 8 bytes in length. This change was required in order to allow OS_Heap 7 to function correctly. Now the only requirements are that blocks must be multiples of 4 bytes in length, at 4 byte alignment, with a minimum length of 8 bytes. 4 extra padding bytes may still be added to the end of allocations in order to avoid creating 4-byte free blocks.
  s/HeapMan, TestSrc/HeapTest/Makefile, TestSrc/HeapTest/c/testbed, TestSrc/HeapTest/s/asm - Added heap testbed program. Can either use the OS_Heap SWI or directly include a copy of the Kernel's heap manager sources.
  s/vdudecl, s/vduswis - Added dummy implementations of OS_ScreenMode 4, 5 and 6. This prevents the Wimp generating lots of "Unknown OS_ScreenMode reason code" errors when redrawing the screen.
  s/Arthur3, s/Oscli - Moved dotstring closer to where it's used to avoid "ADRL out of range" errors in Tungsten build
Admin:
  Tested in OMAP3 ROM & Tungsten ROM softload.
  Heap testbed successfully performed over 400 million heap ops, so there shouldn't be any serious bugs in the new code (touch wood)


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.128. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_128'

Implement OS_ConvertVariform, internally the other conversions now just call it.
Add tester for Variform to 'Dev'.
Made block copy weirdness for XScale dependent on XScale arch flag.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.126. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_126'

Bandwidth limit for 7500FE fixed.
RO371Timings flag set to :LNOT:STB

Version 4.64. Tagged as 'Kernel-4_64'

Clean reimport of hdr.RISCOS (real commit date 2008-03-28 by bavison), without any of the 3rd party allocations.