Subject: Re: Linux Port
To: Jason Keirstead <jason@keirstead.org>
From: M. R. Brown" < <mrbrown@0xd6.org>"@supa.imt.uwm.edu>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 06/10/2001 14:40:31
* Jason Keirstead <jason@keirstead.org> on Sun, Jun 10, 2001:

> 
> What I am wondering is a) if anyone on this list has a copy of this
> distribution I can try out and b) To what extent are the NetBSD developers
> collaborating with the linux ones? Surely there's alot of commmonality
> behind these ports.
>

I am one of the project leads of LinuxDC (www.linuxdc.org), which is the
"official" port of Linux to Dreamcast-specific hardware.  LinuxSH
(linuxsh.sf.net) is the official port of Linux to the SuperH architecture,
so any driver additions made by the LinuxDC team goes into LinuxSH which
in turn goes into Linus' official tree.

There is no "collaboration" - other than the info I glean from Marcus and
the info that I and others reverse engineer ourselves.  I'm not too keen on
how the NetBSD kernel is structured, but I would be willing to help with
driver ports.  Currently, (I just moved so my time was *limited* :/) I'm
still working on a GD-ROM driver (*not* a straight port of NetBSD's like
another I've seen :), and a better Maple core (VMU flash drivers for Linux
MTD's system are also in the works).

M. R.