Re: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the kernal

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

On 24 Jun 1999, Lonny Pursell wrote:

> For sometime I've wanted do some mintnet socket coding but since
> all of the socketdev stuff is in 'C' I had real troubles.  At
> one point I started to port some of it but a few of the calls 
> are more than I can port, so I gave up.   I've seen some
> discussion of moving some socket calls to the kernal?  Could
> the socket cails that are more than simple calls to /device/socket
> also be moved to the kernal?
> 
> This would open the doors to coders that use pascal, modula, and
> asm and so on to make mintnet apps.  I find it ironic that someone
> the knows asm like the back of their hand, has exactly the same
> problem I have here.
> 
> Keep in mind I don't know linux, what's common amoungst kernals,
> or what it would even take to move these calls.  It's just
> a suggestion I felt the need to express.  It might be
> totally off the wall.  ;-)
> 

 This would greatly simplify lots of things for us non-C programmers if
this was possible, yes ;-) I really hope that it can be done.

 This would make it much easier to do things that use net-capabilities,
and so would be much easier to support. And that, I think, will lead to
more applications using MiNTnet and its capabilities ;-)


 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org