Re: [Ps2hacking-devel] CVS is available. need more hackers.

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At Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:49:42 +0900,
Takahide Higuchi wrote:
> CVS is available at sourceforge now.
> 
> CVSROOT is cvs.ps2hacking.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ps2hacking,
> and the repository is 'linux2.4'. 
> The patch I announced last week is equal to current CVS tree.

Thanks for your work.
# I get little time to work with it this week. Thanks.

>   o Ethernet is only ported device at present...
>     framebuffer, (Xserver and DRM !?), IDE, USB, and more are 
>     waiting for you B)

Sure :-)
IDE is the most important part. I pick it up :)

>   o test and set device (drivers/char/tst_dev.c) is broken.
> 
>     It is my understanding that this hack will improve performance of
>     applications that needs extensive use of atomic lock operations
>     (multithread, databases etc) on inexpensive MIPSes without LL/SC
>     instructions.

FYI (I guess you know), authors of this test and set driver
at Sony releases publication which is for Linux Conference (9/26-28).

>   o various PlayStation2 specific code needs being ported, redesign, 
>     or/and removal...
> 
>   o I guess cache flushing operation can be optimized more.
>       (arch/mips/mm/r5900.c)
>
>   o need to adapt to the new architecture in the Linux/MIPS tree.
>     for Linux/MIPS integration, we should use arch/mips/kernel/time.c,
>     arch/mips/kernel/irq.c and so on instead of old codes for linux-2.2
>     in arch/mips/ps2 
> 
>   o cleanup various macro and fix 128bit register support in assembler code
>     and some header files. I will try this next month.
>
>   o catch up to the Linux/MIPS secondary tree.
> 
>   o (... and more? please comment.) 

MIPS 64bit support. I investigate and think that 
to develop the original Linux/MIPS 64bit is needed.
Of cource, it's future work.

-- gotom