On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:14, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > Linas has done a pretty good job on improving the driver in the last half > > year or so and he also has access to all the necessary hardware so I think > > he would be the right person for the job. > > It seems I've been nominated twice. Since I'm expecting future activity > to drop to zero, how hard can this be? :-) I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, when we integrate the driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet. The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20 in the process. I also think that you'd do a good job doing this, but it may be more that what you are willing to do without official funding of the time you spend on it. Of course the actual amount of work will depend a lot on the quality of the spidernet patches coming from Sony to the spidernet maintainer. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
