Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2009/12/9 OL <o.l@lutece.net>:
> Vincent Rivière a écrit :
>>
>> Paul Wratt wrote:
>>>
>>> what is the current state of v4e support (I see preliminary "hacks" in
>>> kernel Makefile's, they could be cleaner and usable in the regular
>>> way), you know what I am thinking right?
>>
>> Olivier Landemarre and Didier Méquignon made patches to make FreeMiNT work
>> on FireTOS (ColdFire + 68000 emulation). This was some years ago.
>>
>> I don't know if the current kernel can still work on FireTOS.
>
> Kernel should work, since Odd and some other have add patchs to stabilize
> Mint when it is compil with GCC 4.x it should work better! I not see any
> reason to not work. Notice we not patch assembly code that need coldfire 68K
> emulator and never try compil XaAES for coldfire (I compil MyAES for
> coldfire). Gemlib was compil too for coldfire without problem.
>
>> One of my next tasks will be to fully port the latest version of FreeMiNT
>> to ColdFire, without the need of 68000 emulation. This will be another trip
>> in unknown land, because I don't even know how to install a full kernel with
>> all its modules. Some hidden bugs will probably appear.
>> As you are debugging everything now, it will ease my next work :-)
>>
> Olivier
>

:)

Sweet, can you release that WindFrame skeleton (code) then, I'll see
if I cant get MyAES to load XaAES themes and Gradients :)


Paul
(looks like its almost "debuggin time" for me, thanks Vincent :) )