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Re: [MiNT] kernel modules
On 4 April 2011 23:57, m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
> On 04.04.2011 23:40, Vincent Rivière wrote:
>>
>> I will not tolerate any "emulated instruction" on my FireBee. So I will
>> build ColdFire kernel modules. At least for myself.
>> Furthermore, it would be a total nonsense to use open-source software with
>> emulated binaries.
>>
> Yes, but it can be quite a sophisticated task when it comes down to hardware
> access... running the ext2 kernel module as m68k binary is maybe ok, but,
> for example doing I/O to an network card is probably not going to be
> successful when using the m68k drivers for network card foobar.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's exactly what Vincent just said.
JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire