Re: [Freemint-discuss] XaAES' integrated BubbleGEM

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 23:43, Peter Slegg via Freemint-discuss <
fre...@li...> wrote:

> The same argument could be used about any aspect of the AES.
>
Technically speaking, yes. For instance having XaAES as a kernel module
also breaks this principle -- it favours one AES over others and sometimes
even introduces regressions (like the infamous keyboard bug in N.AES which
nobody noticed for years).

I'd say what matters in this debate is ... the actual implementation.
Helmut was a clever Atari developer but he wasn't exactly prototype of a
person who produces clean and maintainable code (not to speak about the
quality of his commits...). So while Frank's / Ozk's work on XaAES is
defendable even now, 20 years later, Helmut's code is usually Thorsten's or
my friend every other month when we discover something broken / horribly
designed / nonsensical.

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