Re: [Ps2hacking-devel] Building mipsEE-linux chain

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

* now3d <n3...@an...> on Sat, Sep 15, 2001:

> Hello
> It seems you are making good progress with the GNUPro sources released
> by snsys. 
> 
> However I think you must be unaware that you are repeating the work that
> other people have done before.
> the ps2dev.sourceforge.net site has the fixed unix sources for iop and
> ee. they have been there for some time.
> 

Other people are trying to get these sources into the binutils and gcc
mainline?  If so, then yes, I am repeating someone's else "work", other
than that I'm not doing anything to the sources except cleaning them up.
If they're in binutils and gcc proper, then they're already build-ready :P.

> Also the ps...@to... list has been running for over 18 months or
> so, i sugest you join up, there are over 400 members so you have more
> chance of making progress quicker. Or at least CC it to both lists,
> because atm, no one gets this info about your work. I dont think there
> are >400 members on ps2hacking yet are there?
> 

Thanks for the info.

> On the subject of including the GNUPro patches for r5900, iop, dvp etc I
> believe it is an issue of owner permission. eg they wrote it for GNUPro,
> so the normal GNU tool chain may require the authorisation of the
> origional author. I sugest you ask about this. (apparently all GNUPro
> advancements get added into normal GNU after a while, but this has not
> happened with ps2 specific stuff yet)
> 

Right, Cygnus wrote it for GNUPro for Sony.  At the top of each Cygnus
source file, is a FSF copyright statement, which means the FSF owns the
sources.  I seriously doubt that the FSF would withhold sources, so it
seems to be an issue of Cygnus just not bothering to merge with the FSF
binutils and gcc.  Hopefully it's that simple, let me know if I'm missing
something.

> i sugest you email bin...@so... and enquire there.
> 

I will as soon as I have more time to work on this.

M. R.