From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Feb 1 07:02:04 2010 Message-ID: From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: References: <4B5C752A.5050901@freesbee.fr> <11a6f2b11001311341w331252a6y9506960d59d636d6@mail.gmail.com> <4B65FD72.2080500@online.no> <201002010022.54265.oak@helsinkinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <201002010022.54265.oak@helsinkinet.fi> Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.3 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:00:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 X-EsetScannerBuild: 6501 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: -------------------------------------------------- From: "Eero Tamminen" Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:22 PM To: Cc: "Jo Even Skarstein" Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.3 >> Testing on a particular emulator is only saying something about how >> FreeMiNT works on that emulator. If you want to test it on a ST, you >> need an ST. > > E.g. Hatari's ST emulation is pretty perfect (unlike TT or Falcon > emulation Yes, and yet you list a number of things that differs Hatari from the hardware it's emulating ;-) I'm not saying anything about the quality of Hatari or emulators in general, but they are not suited for final testing of software. This can only be done on the actual hardware the software is intended to run on. > What is hard though, is getting a full MiNT distribution with latest SW > that > doesn't rely on Aranym host drivers (fDVI etc) and is set ready for use on > real ST HW (68000). The real problem here is rather that FreeMiNT hasn't been working on 68000 for a long time... Also, lack of RAM would probably be a big problem. Jo Even __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4823 (20100201) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com