[MiNT] Re[2]: freemint & xaaes release

[George Nakos <ggn@hol.gr>]

Hi all,

Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 9:25:49 PM, you wrote:

>> Well if noone else wants it, I might hack a quick proggie in gfa basic or asm
>> (depends on the mood ;) to do that. After Outline of course!
>> 
>> So, what's the exact specs? Scan for mint*.prg in the auto folder, determine
>> their version and display a list, so the user can select the kernel of choice
>> and then pexec() the right kernel? Or is more fiddling with the \mint\ folder
>> required?

> Well, in fact I started writing one 2-3 years ago, and stopped as soon
> as started :). What I was planning:
> - Recursively scan [bootdrive]:\mint for mint*.prg binaries
> - Configuration file with some extra directories to scan
>   or simply a list of kernels to boot?
> - Being able to add some parameters to the kernel on the command line
> - In fact, a bit like what GRUB does for Linux

> Also, I think we should have a single kernel for 020+ cpu, except for
> mmu, fpu emulation and some drivers (!!), most of 020/030/040/060 kernel
> should be the same. With the ct60, you need to reinstall the other
> kernel when you switch between 030 and 060 mode.
> Would it be hard to merge everything in a single binary?

Back from Holland (for some time now ;). I almost forgot about this thread :).
So, anyone got any other features with such a selector? Or should I go with
Patrice's ideas?


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Best regards,
 George                            mailto:ggn@hol.gr