C64 buses when RESET is asserted

Hello!

I would like to ask what happens to the address and data bus in the C64
when the RESET signal is asserted?

Basically my idea is that for a KERNAL replacement solution, I want to
have a small SRAM chip instead of the kernal ROM. A PIC microcontroller
would load the kernal data from SD card to the SRAM upon power-up, then
shut itself off. If necessary, the MCU would assert a longer RESET
signal to the CPU to finish this task.

But I don't know, what happens to the CPU and VIC buses when RESET is
asserted? Are they driven or tri-stated? Because if they are driven, I
would need to add some buffers between the PIC and the SRAM, so that
signals from PIC would not interfere with what the CPU and/or VIC puts
on the bus during reset, and that would complicate my design...

Regards,
Michau.

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