13 Jun
2009
13 Jun
'09
10:58 p.m.
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 14:35 -0500, blstuart at bellsouth.net wrote:
Window manager? It handles windows in hardware? Because that doesn't
sound like something available on bare metal to me...
Gordon
Ofcourse,
porting Inferno to Amiga would require quite a bit more
effort to also support graphics etc, the Amiga doesnt have character
modes, so you will have to implement a whole framebuffer and run a
console on top of that (linux fb originates from the m68k port for
exactly this reason).
That does complicate things a bit. However, if there's
an RS-232 port on the machine, then you could use
that for a console at least during initial development.
And in principle, osinit.dis could initialize the graphics
hardware and fire off the window manager, and you
wouldn't need to write the emulation of a character
mode.