Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Some answers on digest #38 and #39

[Paul M. <pm...@mv...>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:23:27AM +0900, Takahide Higuchi wrote:
> AFAIK, the only working linux-2.4 kernel is our cvs tree at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ps2hacking, but it will not boot up
> without the kit since it depends on proprietary stuff (DVD that
> contains bootloader and 'SBIOS') from Sony.
>=20
> There is another CVS tree at http://sf.net/projects/linux-mips.=20
> their PS2 port seems imcomplete at present.
>=20
The PS2 port is a constant work-in-progress, and is meant as a clean and
proper port of the broken job that Sony did. Unfortunately, with lack of fr=
ee
time, finding time to actively work on it is somewhat of a nuisance..

Anyone wanting a working 2.4, should definately not be looking at linux-mips
anytime soon, and should be looking at the ps2hacking effort instead. The g=
oal
for linux-mips is to get things cleaned up to a point where it's acceptable=
 to
push them into places like the OSS CVS .. which is why there's more attenti=
on
being paid to cleanliness vs functionality at this point in time.

Though for anyone wanting to gradually test things, dropping in portions of
the linux-mips code overtop of the ps2hacking tree probably wouldn't be too
big of a problem either.. it had been my intention to submit patches to
ps2hacking anyways, for things like updated rtc/time code, cleaned up
interrupt handler, redone cache handling routines to conform with new API,
etc, etc., though I never did get around to it..=20

Regards,

--=20
Paul Mundt <pm...@mv...>
MontaVista Software, Inc.