[Freemint-list] Generic power-off functionality

[Adam Klobukowski]

2017-01-12 21:01 GMT+01:00 Jo Even Skarstein <joska at online.no>:

> On ti., 2017-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Adam Klobukowski wrote:
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> > The proper way to extend OS is to use OS functions. Cookies are not
>
> But this is not an OS extension...
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> >  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.
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>
Still, a bad design.


> > 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.
>
>
I have not problem with reimplementing that.

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Semper Fidelis

Adam Klobukowski
adamklobukowski at gmail.com
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