[Freemint-list] Generic power-off functionality

[Jo Even Skarstein]

On ti., 2017-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Adam Klobukowski wrote:



> The proper way to extend OS is to use OS functions. Cookies are not

But this is not an OS extension...

>  for system functions, but for information. None of original Atari
>  cookies contain function pointers, they contain information about the
> system.

There are already many commonly used cookies with pointers to code or
data.

> I hope I'll get my FireBee soon. I'll be happy to implement the design
> I proposed.

That would of course be nice, but then you would have to reimplement
support for all the various poweroff methods that FireTOS and EmuTOS
already supports and could make available to MiNT through a simple
pointer.

Jo Even