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From: ST00482@auvm.auvm.edu (dan drake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX and 68030
Message-ID: <90266.095514ST00482@auvm.auvm.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 90 13:55:14 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
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I've just been informed that MINIX will not run on an Amiga 3000 (running
a 68030).  How has AMIGAMINIX been limited to 24 bit pointers and integers?
Is it just a case of recompiling it with a compiler that uses 32 bit integers?
If this is the case, could I recompile the source under AmigaDos, and have
a valid program?  I see no reason why not, if the output is just plain
vanilla 68000 code or 68030 code.  (I'm not even sure that my compiler
supports any other processors than the 68000.)
   Does the problem rise from the caches of the '030?  In that case, they
can be turned off.  How much of the distribution is in assembly?  Does
this section use instructions that are priviledged in the 68030?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
dan drake.
st00482@auvm.bitnet    (yuck!!)
chopin!dan@uunet.uu.net