From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Aug 9 10:33:52 2010 To: From: Peter Slegg Subject: Re: [MiNT] Idea for later releases Reply-To: Peter Slegg X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.94.13761 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK)) X-Hardware: Atari Milan MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:31:54 +0200 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <00156357.01b8b262da6a@smtp.freeola.net> References: In-Reply-To: A3E01F3C-BC90-47D4-B331-416DB1D73143@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 o79EXpCJ025709 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:19:53 , Peter Persson wrote: > > > 9 aug 2010 kl. 13.46 skrev Paul Wratt: > > > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Peter Slegg > wrote: > >> I find it a bit odd that freemint can load it's modules from > >> a specific folder but the programme in AUTO has to be manually > >> changed. > >> > >> Would it be better if there was a just a mint loader in the AUTO > >> folder that loaded the kernel and modules from the selected > >> version folder ? > >> > >> The default would be the last one chosen but the user could open > >> the ini menu and select a specific version. This would load the > >> kernel and the matching xaaes and modules. > >> > >> Peter > >> > > someone has recently written a tool like this, not sure if it was > falcon only > > I guess that would be my kernel- + xaaes-loader. The only thing it did > was select kernel/xaaes binary based on the CPU type, but the reception > it got resembled that of a poop-flavoured popsicle :) I ditched that > project! > > -- PeP > > I must have missed it. A tool like this would save a lot of frustration when the kernel doesn't boot or clashes with the xaaes version. Peter