Comments on: Gentoo/MIPS: A note about the PlayStation, PS2 and PSP http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/04/06/gentoomips-ps/ The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4FSJL) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chewi http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/04/06/gentoomips-ps/#comment-1616 Chewi Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:08:39 +0000 http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/?p=222#comment-1616 Heh who was asking about it? I think many people have considered me to be the last bastion of hope for getting it working and even though I don't post in the Gentoo thread much anymore (mainly to avoid annoying people asking about it), I have continued to work on it all this time. gcc 3.0.4 is the latest on Linux and 3.2.2 is the latest for homebrew. My work for the past year has been on gcc 4 and believe it or not, I have had positive results from 4.3. I've only been using it with homebrew stuff so far but it runs a couple of small graphical demos and madplay can even play some short MP3s. Something is still not quite right but it could be a little as one line and that's why I've perservered. I am currently battling with 128-bit support, whilst debating with myself whether it's even really needed for homebrew stuff. I know it isn't needed for Linux. The problem is that gcc assumes that the word size (and by that, I mean the commonly-available set of instructions) is the same as the GPR size. Just one of the many of those bastardisations! :D Unfortunately I have less time to spend on it now because I've now switched focus to writing a games demo with a view to getting into the games industry. However, I'd still like to keep working on it, especially since Codeplay is very interested in me as a result of my work. Their first product was a PS2 compiler. I'd go and work for them right now if I lived a little closer. If I did go to work for them, the skills I'd pick up would probably enable me to finish. Heh who was asking about it? I think many people have considered me to be the last bastion of hope for getting it working and even though I don’t post in the Gentoo thread much anymore (mainly to avoid annoying people asking about it), I have continued to work on it all this time. gcc 3.0.4 is the latest on Linux and 3.2.2 is the latest for homebrew. My work for the past year has been on gcc 4 and believe it or not, I have had positive results from 4.3. I’ve only been using it with homebrew stuff so far but it runs a couple of small graphical demos and madplay can even play some short MP3s. Something is still not quite right but it could be a little as one line and that’s why I’ve perservered. I am currently battling with 128-bit support, whilst debating with myself whether it’s even really needed for homebrew stuff. I know it isn’t needed for Linux. The problem is that gcc assumes that the word size (and by that, I mean the commonly-available set of instructions) is the same as the GPR size. Just one of the many of those bastardisations! :D

Unfortunately I have less time to spend on it now because I’ve now switched focus to writing a games demo with a view to getting into the games industry. However, I’d still like to keep working on it, especially since Codeplay is very interested in me as a result of my work. Their first product was a PS2 compiler. I’d go and work for them right now if I lived a little closer. If I did go to work for them, the skills I’d pick up would probably enable me to finish.

]]> By: lu_zero http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/04/06/gentoomips-ps/#comment-1615 lu_zero Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:10:11 +0000 http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/?p=222#comment-1615 We (PPC team) support ps3 =) Luckily the CELL is quite well supported by upstream ^^ We (PPC team) support ps3 =)

Luckily the CELL is quite well supported by upstream ^^

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