From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Sep 14 09:49:07 2010 Message-ID: <45ADB1C0B7D746AF9AE16ADA086DFC7D@mercatus.local> From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: References: <806289.516479836-sendEmail@descaro> <4C8F793C.6090309@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4C8F793C.6090309@freesbee.fr> Subject: Re: [MiNT] 1.17 Release & Aranym Memory Protection ? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:46:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 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: "Vincent Rivière" Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:31 PM To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] 1.17 Release & Aranym Memory Protection ? > It would be nice if FreeMiNT could display a meaningful message in that > case, instead of crashing miserably. Wouldn't that require MiNT to analyze the current MMU setup? > What is the purpose of setmmu.prg ? > If it is required for running FreeMiNT, it should be built and shipped > with it. Or maybe included into mint.prg itself... Basically it's a tool to correct some shortcomings in the underlying OS. TOS/EmuTOS doesn't set up the MMU correctly. IMO the correct solution under Aranym would be to set up the MMU in the OS or emulator. It's also used on the Hades. I think it's needed to allow stuff like soundcards to work properly too. Lonny can probably tell more about this. Jo Even