From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Dec 17 16:52:46 2009 To: mint From: Peter Slegg Subject: Re: [MiNT] patch:MiNT:KM_FREE Reply-To: Peter Slegg X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.91.13668 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK)) X-Hardware: Atari Milan MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2009 21:50:23 +0200 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <000e293d.019636d6331f@smtp.freeola.net> References: <11a6f2b10912170848o508806bdk6c6e17fc458db8d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 11a6f2b10912170848o508806bdk6c6e17fc458db8d8@mail.gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk 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 nBHLqjAU003611 > > "....For XaAES a complete new kernel interface was developed. This was > > necessary > > since XaAES as a central component of the operating system needs much mor > e > > control and access to kernel functions and resources than is needed for x > dd > > and xfs modules. For the future it is planned that all modules should swi > tch > > to the new interface as well, thus removing the old interface > > completely...." > > > thanks, that answers a few things.. it tasks like this that should be > on an overall list of "current progress", in this case it would be > targeting a kernel release after 1.17 > > I will put up something relatively soon that related to this (overall > list), but that is targeting something that is about 12 months away > (by my estimates), however it will help in the interim as well, things > that should be done for point releases after 1.17.. > A couple of years ago I asked if there was a "roadmap" (management speak) for FreeMint so that everyone knows what the overall aims are. Peter