On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:09:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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, Well, then, its a good thing I put a smiley face at the end of the sentence, eh? > 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. Since I've got the driver more or less memorized, I don't expect this to be an intellectual challenge. Which sometimes has the side effect of my getting bored, and dropping things on the floor. > 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. (Ardnt knows that my spidernet work is "moonlighting", off-the-books work.) I'll ask my employer. > 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. I guess I'll have to ask my employer for a ps3 that I can do some "research" on. --linas - 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
