On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:14 +0100, Philipp Donzé wrote: > Hi > > > Should 68000 support be considered for such an advanced step in > > FreeMint development ? > > > IMO a good solution would be to drop 68000 support and add virtual > memory into the OS. This would ease the implementation of dynamic > libraries and would allow adoption of more features from other Unix > systems. > > Philipp we feel a need to branch the kernel. DO IT. Have a 1.15.x kernel for 68000 and maintain it for that system, maintain a package repository for that system. Enough people still use 1.15.12 that another 1.15.12 release hsould be made with proper sockdev.xdd, etc to be released with those bugfixes. Or maybe just the inet4 stuff could be added and nothing else... You could even branch 1.16.x right now and call it the last 68000 kernel. Add vm to 1.16.x, recompile all the packages with shared lib support once someone does it and do a new repository. Let's have some fun. You could even go one step further: if (68000) no_vm(); else vm(); Not too hard I would think??? Not trying to insult anyone here but I think we can get going on this. Thanks, Mark
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