Re: [MiNT] Firebee Coldfire MiNT Kernel and NFS

[OL <o.l@lutece.net>]

Hello Vincent,

Could it be an AES issue? I think this because to have wrote one, I can 
see preemptive multitask in supervisor is broken, AES should realease 
the hand to GEMDOS (for example with Syield()) to change task.

Olivier
> On 01/09/2014 22:04, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > I begin to wonder if FireTOS and its internal multitasking (FreeRTOS,
> > etc...) could not be part of the problem...
>
> New approach: EmuTOS on the FireBee.
> I used Markus's BaS_GCC, mcdcook.prg and modified fec.xif.
>
> Good news: the network works (almost) as well as on FireTOS. I can use 
> OpenSSH and Samba without trouble. Everything 100% ColdFire :-)
>
> Bad news: NFS still does not work. I get the exact same results with 
> EmuTOS than on FireTOS.
>
> Conclusion:
>
> 1) There is nothing wrong in FireTOS. The situation is the same with 
> EmuTOS.
>
> 2) NFS is much faster when there is some screen activity. It is not 
> related to mouse interrupts, as I initially thought.
>
> How can screen activity speed up NFS???
> Probably something in deep multitasking routines...
> And what does NFS try to do when it is stuck?