Re: [linuxdc-dev] New member

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* messiah <me...@op...> on Mon, Mar 26, 2001:

> I have recently joined as a member on www.linuxdc.org and was wondering what
> projects still need to be done?
> 
> I am new to the Dreamcast world, but I have developed for Debian and would
> love to experiment with Dreamcast Linux development.
> 

Wow, I've always wanted to tread the distro waters, even thought of rolling
my own once :).

Anyways, as far as the LinuxDC kernel, AFAIK Maple Bus support (input for
the keyboards, joysticks, mouse, and other connectable peripherals) is
currently being worked on, and I'm about to work on a GD-ROM driver and an
accelerated frame buffer.  The only thing that no one has volunteered for
kernel-wise would be the sound subsystem.

The other major LinuxDC project would be porting apps to the SH4.  There's
actually a developer porting Debian to the SuperH (ftp.m17n.org).  I'd also
like to see an effort started where people would submit patches/tarballs of
libraries and apps that they've been able to sucessfully cross-compile to
LinuxDC.

M. R.