Re: [MiNT] kernel modules

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

On 04/04/11 19:12, Peter Slegg wrote:
> 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 ?
>

The daily builds have been 1.18 for quite some time now.

Alan.