Re: [MiNT] kernel modules

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

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:49:28 , Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:
> Paul Wratt wrote:
> > that patch you supplied recently, that fixed the way kernel modules
> > where compiled for CF ..
>
> I supplied several patches, each one focused on a very specific change
> which was explicitly described in the CVS log message.
>
> I did not provide a general patch for the compilation of kernel modules.
>
> > .. am I right in understanding that they are now compile per cpu type?
>
> If it was the case, I would have told that.
>
> Progressively, I supply patches to enable ColdFire support in the C and
> assembler sources, so more and more components are able to be compiled
> for ColdFire.
>
> But the Makefiles are not ready to allow building a full FreeMiNT
> distribution with all the components optimized for a specific target.
> This will be a further task, covering all the supported targets, not
> only ColdFire.
>
> > .. or are they still 68000 only?
>
> Yes, nothing has changed.
> Even if more and more components can be compiled for ColdFire, the
> current makefiles always build most modules and tools for 68000 only.
>

Paul is not alone, I was getting the impression that Freemint was now
cpu specific or is it just the kernel and xaaes km ?

Will the daily builds switch to version 1.18 ?

Regards,

Peter