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Re: [MiNT] New MiNT updates

To: Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>, Jörg Westheide <Joerg_Westheide@su.maus.de>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] New MiNT updates
From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 20:04:34 +0200
Cc: mint@fishpool.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.MNT.4.05.9904070911180.23-100000@tos>; from Mario Becroft on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:22:59AM +1200
References: <199904062003.a50567@su.maus.de> <Pine.MNT.4.05.9904070911180.23-100000@tos>
Sender: owner-mint@fishpool.com

On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:22:59AM +1200, Mario Becroft wrote:
> 
> To me it doesn't sound like that should be extremely difficult to
> implement. Never having worked on MiNT I would not want to try doing it
> myself but are any of the MiNT hackers thinking of doing that?

The problem is that it requires help from the disk driver: it has to tell
MiNT that is has started a DMA transfer and is now effectively waiting for
an interrupt.

cu
Michael
-- 
Michael Schwingen, Ahornstrasse 36, 52074 Aachen

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