Re: [MiNT] XaAES and appl_init()

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

On 02/26/13 23:22, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Alan Hourihane, 27.02.2013 00:18:36:
>
> > On 02/26/13 20:03, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > > On 24/02/2013 19:57, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > > > As seen on the EmuTOS mailing list, XaAES uses appl_init() at 
> > > > startup to
> > > > determine if the VDI workstation is opened or not. But it does that in
> > > > supervisor mode, while calling the AES from supervisor is 
> > > > forbidden. So
> > > > running XaAES from the desktop with GEM=ROM (both EmuTOS and TOS 4.04)
> > > > crashes with ARAnyM.
> > >
> > > This XaAES bug is annoying, now it crashes on the FireBee with 
> > > EmuTOS, too.
> > > Are we going to keep things as-is for the 1.18 release?
> >
> > I presume it worked in 1.17. If so, we shouldn't regress. So, we 
> > either....
> >
> > 1. Revert whatever change caused it.
>
> This would certainly again brake other platforms. 1.17 does not use 
> appl_init, and it was not introduced for fun.

We shouldn't be implementing features that violate supervisor mode for 
fun too.

> > 2. Fix it properly.
>
> Yes. :)

Indeed. So how is it going to be done and when ?

Alan.