[Gc-linux-devel] Some coordination

[Michael S. <st...@in...>]

Hi!

It is really amazing how many people are interested in contributing!

** SI/gamepad driver **

"Free the Cube" has announced yesterday that he was working on a 
SI/gamepad driver - great. Don't we need an independent driver for the 
SI bus first, that exports an API for the bus, and gamepad drivers 
later, that plug into the SI API?
Anyway, the joystick->mouse converter sounds very interesting, but a 
kernel driver would be more useful, I think. Adding code for 
joystick->keyboard conversion should not be hard then.

** EXI driver **

Arthur Othieno (hubb) told me yesterday that he was working on a driver 
for the EXI bus. He already has an API design as well as a skeleton 
driver that builds and loads into a x86 kernel.

** writing drivers/docs **

You might ask whether it already makes sense to start writing drivers, 
if the kernel doesn't boot yet. Yes, it makes sense. You can't try it 
out yet, but if you're motivated, then write some code! In the Xbox 
Linux project, we had an almost-working bootloader as well as a simple 
filesystem drivers before we even had a modchip.
So if you want to start working on some other driver (see 
http://gc-linux.org/docs/roadmap.html ), just announce it on the 
mailing list and go ahead. Yes, we have very little documentation on 
the website. If you have some documentation from elsewhere on the web, 
tell me, and we'll add it. Also tell me if you want to write 
documentation (<- this is _very_ useful!).

*****

->"Free the Cube": The EXI doc looks interesting, it doesn't seem to be 
the same as Costis' article on the website. Perhaps it makes sense to 
merge information contained in yours into Costis' article (in English)?

   Michael