From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Apr 29 14:35:54 2009 Message-ID: <49F89D22.8090401@freesbee.fr> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:32:02 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmluY2VudCBSaXZpw6hyZQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Alternatives to ColdFire: what about the ARM platform and imx515 Genesi Developer Program References: <8461730.283901241014565357.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> In-Reply-To: <8461730.283901241014565357.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090428-0, 28/04/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n3TIZrj1005989 penbox@tiscali.it wrote: > How much work would it be necessary to free MiNT > from TOS dependencies, to let it run natively on an hardware different > > from original Atari's? > Otherwise, could EmuTos be ported to new > hardware to run MiNT on top of it? I had a look at EmuTOS recently. I'm pretty sure that the "core" part would be not so complicated to port to other hardware. However, a lot of low level routines should be rewritten. The VDI part is mostly written in 68000 assembler, in a very complicated and written in an unreadable way, it is totally unportable. The best choice should be to rewrite it from scratch, or use something else (fVDI ?). I don't know about the AES part. But Olivier Landemarre has written MyAES from scratch in a very portable way, it could be ported to any platform easily. About the FreeMiNT kernel: no idea. > Is it a though work to add a 68k > emultor for the old binaries to tun on the new platform? If all the OS functions are implemented, it will be easy to take an existing 68k emulator and wire it into that OS. So I definitely believe all of that is possible, it is just a matter of time and interest. -- Vincent Rivière