Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Some coordination

[Free T. C. <Fre...@fr...>]

Michael Steil wrote:
> 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?
The GCPAD driver from GCLIB uses direct memory access to the mapped area 
where are pad status, it should be possible to do like this 
(temporarily)... Then we can modify this first implementation to use the 
SI layer ! (i need confirmation)

> 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.
OK, i will try to put the "joystick->mouse converter" into kernel-space :) !
For the joystick->keyboard conversion, i don't know how to make it 
possible, someone has got an idea ???

> 
> ** 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)?
This is not mine, this is a french translation :) from the article taken 
from GCDemos, I have to write the source on the headline, sorry.


> 
>   Michael
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