From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Feb 19 09:12:50 2009 Message-ID: <499D6871.1070205@atari-source.org> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:10:57 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Standa Opichal CC: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] VM or not VM... UVM? References: <4CF63483-3422-416A-B3AB-E1B496830EC6@seznam.cz> <5783AAFF-7BA0-4E9C-BD15-A2F0EFE3E170@seznam.cz> In-Reply-To: <5783AAFF-7BA0-4E9C-BD15-A2F0EFE3E170@seznam.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Score: -1.4 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.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Standa Opichal wrote: >> Standa Opichal wrote: >>> Otherwise we will end up fixing every single >>> application just as the ucLinux guys do for non-MMU targets >> >> So, let's compile ucLinux packages for MiNT ;-) > > I knew this was coming ;) > > I will just add 'And fight the same static stack insanity on and on'. > But certainly this could be the way to get 'the right source to port' > till there is any VM. > > I am sure you know all this, but anyways. These days this only pays > off then one is developing a very limited purpose distribution that > does its particular things well (like routers, VoIP phones and such > gadgets), but not for general purpose machines. > > Mikro? What is the real state of your UVM work? Would you be willing > to publish it? > > STanda I've started laying a framework for VM in one of my kernel trees. I'll probably need a bunch of help on the assembler side of life with context switches and such. Thanks, Mark