From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Mar 24 11:16:04 2004 Message-ID: <02ce01c41185$bfafab60$fa01a8c0@euhe.local> From: "Adam Klobukowski" To: "[MiNT] Mailing-List" References: Subject: Re: [MiNT] Shared libs without MMU resources Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:52:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 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: atari@gabo.pl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: > >> 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. -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl