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- From: meulenbr@ce.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: amiga (and mac?) 1.6.23
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.103203.27993@philce.ce.philips.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 10:32:03 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.121500.20768@philce.ce.philips.nl> <9211039530@monty.apana.org.au>
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- newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes:
- [ I trimmed the included message]
-
- >Could we get some sort of coordination going here? Perhaps resurrect
- >the old Amiga MINIX developers' mailing list to make sure that
- >everyone who attempts a port (assuming that I'm not going to be the
- >only one :-) doesn't fall over on the same little hitches.
-
- Seems like a good idea, although as an atarian I will not volunteer.
-
- >We could also take this opportunity to semi-officially add things like
- >DCD/SIGHUP handling and DTR control in the kernel. I have written
- >that kind of stuff for my 1.5 distribution, and I'd hate to lose it
- >all in an "upgrade" (more like a "retrograde", really :-).
-
- I propose not to do so, but instead do it in 2 steps.
- First go to 1.6.23, then add your stuff. See also below.
-
- [...]
- >system calls and leave the rest exactly like it is (althought it'd be
- >nice to finally get rid of that damnable tty_reply deadlock bug;
- >Matthias Pfaller sent me a copy of his Atari ST mpx68k.s file, but
- >there were too many differences between it and the Amiga one to use it
- >as a template for fixing the bug. Does anyone have cdiffs that can be
- >applied to get rid of it? Come to think of it, will it still be a
- >problem with the new filesystem?)
-
- The mpx.s in atari 1.6.23 should be usable on the amiga I think.
- I do not know the differences between the 1.6.23 and the official amiga
- version, but there has been a moment when my version and the one from
- Steven Reiz were identical.
-
- >If we're using the Atari version as a base upon which to build the
- >Amiga one then the changes will already be integrated :-) We'd just
- >have to make absolutely sure that we encapsulate everything that we do
- >inside #if (MACHINE == AMIGA) directives.
-
- Yes. However, perhaps you also want to change a few
- #if (MACHINE == ATARI)
- into
- #if (CHIP == M68000)
- or the other way around.
-
- That's also the reason why I prefer if you do not add all kinds of not
- 1.6.23 related changes. If all kind of local enhancements occur I have
- to look at all your changes and decide if I think they should go into
- the official version, or if they should qualify as 'local enhancements'.
- I don't really like doing that. Too much chance making a mistake.
- --
- Frans Meulenbroeks Philips Research Laboratories
- preferred email address: meulenbr@prl.philips.nl
-