Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT 1.18 release

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

On 04/12/2012 11:44, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > 1) On the ColdFire kernel, the FPU (and MAC) status is not backuped on
> > context switch. This means that currently, two programs using the FPU
> > at the same time would mess. This is probably easy to fix, but it has
> > to be done carefully.
>
> O.k. I see that's one for Vincent :-)

No trouble, I will do that.
Should be easy.

> > 2) There is a big bug in the MiNTLib about checking if a directory
> > exists or not. It may affect QED, tar... This needs to be closely
> > investigated. This is a major issue.
>
> Is there a test case ? I'll put this on my plate.

Very good, Alan :-)

I don't remember exactly how I discovered that. I think that I had big 
trouble with my latest build of tar (system files deleted, etc), and I 
digged a bit. Finally I arrived to something like . and .. directory 
emulation inside the MiNTLib, and there was something wrong. The code 
was quite complicated, I stopped there.

But for sure I had a testcase. I will look for it and give you the details.

> > 3) FreeMiNT installs new IKBD handlers, but does not install the extra
> > vector at offset -4. As a result, keystrokes can't be cleanly
> > simulated by VNC server, FireTOS USB keyboard support, etc. Again, to
> > be investigated.
>
> O.k. Who is going to look at that ?

I already quickly looked at that.
I will look again and open a discussion.
IMHO, that should not be too much complicated.

FreeMiNT 1.18 will be the best release ever seen :-)

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Vincent Rivière