From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Mar 25 22:31:13 2004 To: "[MiNT] Mailing-List" From: PeterSlegg Subject: Re: [MiNT] Shared libs without MMU resources X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.63-53.8935 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK)) X-Hardware: Atari Milan MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2004 21:23:52 +0200 (GMT) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2004 21:23:52 +0200 (GMT) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <0014ab940000.307900012ce8@smtp.freeola.net> References: <02ce01c41185$bfafab60$fa01a8c0@euhe.local> In-Reply-To: 02ce01c41185$bfafab60$fa01a8c0@euhe.local Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: peterslegg@scubadivers.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:52:41 , "Adam Klobukowski" wrote: > > >> Drawback: Old MiNT hardware (mc68000) does not have a MMU but it does > > >> have a strong lobby here. ;-) > > > > > > does the mc68000 have a lobby, really? I am wondering what the smile > > > should stand for there. > > > I don't believe that there are more than 5% of nonMMU users in the > > > FreeMiNT camp. The ST machines are 20 years old now (the CPU is even > > > older). Where are we - in museum? > > > > I have wondered about such numbers myself. My personal opinion for > > some time is that MiNT should drop all support for CPU's below the 68030. > > However, I do not know how that would effect upgraded machines. > > Are there 030 upgrades and if so do they have proper MMU's on board? > > I also do not know anyone who actually uses MiNT on anything less than > > an 030 as it is. > > Futhermore, most machines prior to 030 has only up to 4MB of RAM, and I > think that current kernel would not leave much space for user apps in such > environment. > > Lets drop non-MMU machines support. > This isn't the same as dropping support for non-MP is it ? I haven't tried booting with memory protection for a long time but it didn't work before. Peter