Re: [MiNT] new CVS build

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 00:33 +0200, George Nakos wrote:
> Hello Alan,
> 
> Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:22:03 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > I've uploaded a new CVS build to www.freemint.org for the MiNT kernel
> > which is freemint-20091216.tar.bz2.
> 
> > It has the additional FATFS patch and should boot on 68000 processors
> > now too.
> 
> > Welcome any comments.
> 
> Only  today I managed to copy it to my mega ste and test it. After some fiddling
> around  with  mint.cnf/xaaes.cnf (I have no usable easymint installation on that
> machine,  so  I  trimmed  it  down  to  a krapmint level) I managed to boot into
> xaaes/teradesk succesfully!

Cool.

> Two caveats though:
> 
> a) Loading scc.xdd makes the machine hang during boot

O.k. I'll take a look at that.

> b)  Trying  to  launch  any  program  (even  a 50-byte one) resulted in teradesk
> complaining  about kmalloc fail (out of memory?) and wouldn't run the program. I
> tried to unload almost all xdd/xfs modules but it still wouldn't budge.

Yeah, I need to track some more things wrong yet.

> All in all, good stuff!
> 
> 
> P.S.  I  couldn't  find inet4.xdd in the cvs build, isn't that needed for tcp to
> start  working?  My  goal  on  the  mste is to have a minimal setup for using my
> netusbee to ftp stuff from and to the machine.

Ah yes, I missed that. I've uploaded a new one with inet4.xdd included.

Alan.