Re: MiNT 1.15.1.beta-1 problems

[Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> If MiNT takes control of the Reset vector, then it is highly 
> possible that parts of the hardware would be prevented from
> re-initializing after a crash, if a register is held locked.

I'm sorry, but I think any computer technician would tell you that this is
nonsense.

> That would definitely explain why the hardware freezes and
> video goes bezerk after an AES crash, when I try pressing 
> Reset to reboot.

I think there could be any number of reasons why that would happen. I
don't think any of them have anything to do with a register being "held
locked" (what ever that is supposed to mean).

Everyone seems to be talking about the reset vector, I have not looked at
how this relates to MiNT, but it's certainly possible that if this was
pointing to garbage, exactly this problem could happen (I believe this is
what other people have in fact observed when the reset vector points to
fast RAM which is no longer valid after a reset). But don't quote me on
that, I may be rather missing the point, as I haven't been folloing that
discussion closely.

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