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Re: [MiNT] Memory protection enabled by default?



On 01/03/13 10:04, J. F. Lemaire wrote:
On 3 January 2013 10:33, Alan Hourihane<alanh@fairlite.co.uk>  wrote:
On 01/03/13 09:12, J. F. Lemaire wrote:
I noticed that after deleting the file MINT.INI FreeMiNT tries to
initialize memory protection the next time it boots. Is this
intentional? There is so much stuff that can break with MP that I'm
not sure it is a wise decision to have this as default.
I think having memory protection on by default is the sane thing to do.

If something breaks when it's on, it's more than likely a bug which should
be fixed.
Ideally, yes. But most applications that break with MP cannot be fixed
because their sources aren't available. Judging by the number of
advice that goes along the lines of "disable memory protection and
reboot" on the Atari forums because somebody's freshly installed MiNT
setup crashes all the time, I would really think this through again.

Maintaining a list of broken programs would be a useful thing to have.

But turning MP off by default, basically means that MP would probably never get tested or used.

Alan.