Re: [MiNT] MiNT on Coldfire

[PeterSlegg <peterslegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

Well done Norman. I've been following your progress on
your website. It must be really nice to see Mint up and
running on a new CPU and new hardware.

Peter


On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:41:33 , Norman Feske <nf2@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Dear MiNT folks,
>
> I just want to let you know that the MiNT kernel runs
> now also on the Coldfire. I wrote a detailed description
> of how I ported the kernel to this platform. You can read
> it at:
>
> http://acp.atari.org/articles/mcf5407eval/mcf5407eval.html
>
> There is also a summary about the TOS-dependencies of
> MiNT (at least the needed things for the startup),
> I stumbled across.
>
> All in all, I must say that I liked the fact that MiNT
> leaves the hardware initialization for timers, keyboard etc.
> to TOS. This enabled me to perform these initializations
> in a Coldfire-specific way in advance and then calling
> the MiNT kernel. (very much like a PC BIOS, that sets
> the system to a well defined state)
>
> Frank told me that he wants to make MiNT take over
> the whole system and kick out all dependencies to the
> underlying TOS. This means, to include all drivers
> that are needed for MiNT's startup (keyboard, screen,
> timers etc.) into the MiNT kernel.
> I would like to keep MiNT behaving like it does now.
> The great advantage for now is, that MiNT makes no
> assumptions about any devices except the CPU.
>
> My current execution environment for the MiNT kernel is
> very small (ca. 600 lines of code). It supports character
> output and keyboard input (over a serial connection).
> There is no block device support yet.
>
> Thank you all for your great achievements with MiNT!
>
> Greetings,
> Norman
>
>



 
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