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Subject: Re: [MiNT] xdd and xfs files
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 09:53 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote:
> > There are many *.xfs and *.xdd files in the mint folder. Many of them I
> > (probably) don't need and some even crashed my system. I'm not a specialist
> > on filesystems and Atari(clone) hardware, and I have no idea what some of
> > these files are for.
> Exactly my point when I was doing that "make_release" script.

O.k. I'm moving the xdd & xfs files to external directories.

> >
> > Is there a description somewhere about the meaning and usage of all these
> > different drivers ? If I select only the drivers that I really need it will
> > improve performance and boottime of my system I'm sure.
> Sure, I included also all available docs / description there.
> 
> >
> > Maybe someone can create and add a little text file to explain the drivers ?
> It's already done. Only thing needed is to use it on Alan's build machine.

I don't see that in your patches. Can you point me to where you create a
little readme that explains all the xfs, xdd, and xif's ?

Thanks,

Alan.


