Re: [MiNT] Current FreeMiNT kernel version

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 21:52:09 , OL <o.l@lutece.net> wrote:

> I have realease myself this. Specific hardware patch to run on coldfire
> hardware was done by Didier to be able to run in 68K version of GCC 2.95
> and I have done other specific patch to Mint be able to run with GCC 4
> (It take 2 month to compil GCC before do anything, this was before
> Vincent do this work, and two month to be able to compil Mint correctly
> with GCC 4) in native coldfire and some specific coldfire patch because
> theire was scratch (as stack supervisor problems really not easy to
> find). Then Odd have finish to do patchs for Mint work better with GCC
> 4. I have only compil Mint kernel but not XaAES, I have compil MyAES for
> coldfire, screen.ldg, Tiny_gl.ldg and fpu.ldg, gemlib to do real speed
> test with Kronos (so bench with Kronos using FPU are in native mode as
> for opengl bench but not the other).
>
>
> http://gem.lutece.net/boot.avi
> First video I have made, it run Mint coldfire, MyAES, Direct desktop and
> Kronos, this was one of firts time I'm able to run Mint this was still
> very unstable, after I have work a lot on Mint and Didier have do the
> same, at the end of my experiments I was able to run near 20 softwares,
> unfortunatly this was not easy to test because I need to describe on
> texte file each file to download on ram disk with tftp and I never be
> able to try a keyboard on evaluation board.
>
>
> Olivier Landemarre

Does that mean that Mint, MyAES, LDG, Kronos, GCC4 and some other stuff
have all ready been compiled for Coldfire ?

That's impressive.

Peter