From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Mar 24 11:15:03 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] Shared libs without MMU resources From: Mark Duckworth To: mint@fishpool.com In-Reply-To: <02ce01c41185$bfafab60$fa01a8c0@euhe.local> References: <02ce01c41185$bfafab60$fa01a8c0@euhe.local> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080122150.24176.4.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:55:50 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:52, 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. Yeah... Honestly.. What's the point? Mark