From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Sun Jul 11 19:29:42 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT on Coldfire From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <40F1519D.40604@inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <40F1519D.40604@inf.tu-dresden.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1089566501.2578.33.camel@joy.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:21:41 +0200 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ns1.avonet.cz id TAA12341 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at fishpool.fi 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: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i6BHSOat018137 V Ne, 11. 07. 2004 v 16:41, Norman Feske píše: > http://acp.atari.org/articles/mcf5407eval/mcf5407eval.html "9.6 Keyboard input Currently, MiNT does not feature a custom keyboard driver but relies on the BIOS for keyboard input." This doesn't sound like a MiNT 1.16 (AKA 2.0 AKA 2005 AKA sid AKA CVSonly :-) version. > Frank told me that he wants to make MiNT take over > the whole system and kick out all dependencies to the > underlying TOS. This means, to include all drivers > that are needed for MiNT's startup (keyboard, screen, > timers etc.) into the MiNT kernel. > I would like to keep MiNT behaving like it does now. It's not an OS if it doesn't manage the resources. It then feels like a Windows 3.x - looking like an OS but still just a DOS extension. I know FreeMiNT is different but it's still halfway to a real OS that can bootstrap itself. Aside from the FreeMiNT on Coldfire success which is worth congratulations, the point 9.8.2 of the document really worries me. It should probably be made clear that this is not an Atari/TOS/GEM/MiNT applications compatible platform. Petr