On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > The Sony PS2 Linux kit has been shipping for nearly > a month now, and I'm frankly astonished at how little > I've seen on this mailing list about it. For better or > for worse, this changes everything for MIPS/Linux. > The number of MIPS/Linux users worldwide has > just gone up by at least an order of magnitude, > and they are on a platform running a 2.2.1-derived > kernel and using gcc 2.95.2. > > It's a perfectly usable platform out of the box, but > Carsten has thrown "crashme" at it, and it goes down > relatively quickly. People trying to port kaffe and > other programs that do double-precision float are > blocked because there's no double precision on the > R5900, and the Sony kernel lacks the Algorithmics > emulator. > I looked at PS2 when I was looking for a mips platform for my Linux/mips work. Unfortunately, PS2 doesn't have ll/sc, which makes many things complicated. H.J.
