[MiNT] new drivers?

[t150315@students.cc.tut.fi]

I was wondering whether anybody has been secretly :)) working
on a few linux compatible device drivers, like framebuffer
and sound ones...

Framebuffer device would mostly be a dummy that instead of
mmap()ing graphics memory would return just screen address
and and some info about screen in general (size, depth and
type).  It might also be able to change resolutions.

First sound driver would be a version of MiNT audiodevice
'just' supporting the same ioctl()s as linux audiodev.


The reason why I brought this up is that there's an increasing
number of linux (x86 & m68k) apps which take advantage of these
and also that it took me only one sunday evening to port Heretic
(a game similar to Doom) for W window system (I did this on
linux system so I got working sound immediately).

Doing a MiNT port of Heretic shouldn't be much harder[1] except
for the sound and there a linux-compatible sound device should
help quite a bit...

[1] if somebody's interested, pasting some code from my mortar
game TOS part[2] would do 80% of the work require.  I won't do
it myself because compiling/running Heretic would be too slow
on my STonX/MiNT to be any fun... :)))

[2] http://www.students.tut.fi/~t150315/


	- Eero