Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.3

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

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 11:49 -0600, Paul Wratt wrote:
> > i have  a  recent  Mega4.  it is in the shop waiting for someone to tell my
> > tech  how  to connect the power to the ICD controller.  but It is  a
> >  working  68000. if that is  any help.
> >
> > josephus
> >
> According to Alans work, mint should be bootable on a 68000
> 
> In theory it should be possible to boot on Hatari emulator, but if it
> is anything like STEem emulation, mint will fail.
> 
> This begs the question, shouldn't there be mint (or patches for mint)
> builds specifically for emulators. There are many specific kernel
> builds at the moment, it does not seem out of line to add a more
> generic level 68000 mint kernel, one that could boot on any emulator.

If that's the case, then the emulator isn't emulating. I can understand
features where emulator provide additional features such as hostfs in
aranym, but there shouldn't be anything stopping them booting plain
MiNT's based on an Atari they are meant to be emulating.

Alan.