Nintendo DS BSP

Dario Alcocer alcocer at helixdigital.com
Fri Mar 14 18:57:36 UTC 2008


Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Matthieu Bucchianeri has submitted a BSP for the Nintendo DS.  It 
> supports all features of the DS including WiFi, touch screen, etc.  
> He has Microwindows/NanoX running on it.
This is really awesome.  Kudos to Matthieu for doing this work!
> The question for the community is how to deal with the issue
> that this BSP is dependent on an external free software 
> library. This is a first.  The license of the library isn't 
> an issue.  
>
> I see only a few options and don't know which is best:
>   
<snip>
> + Offer this library as a pre-built RPM.  This is the cleanest
>   solution for GNU/Linux users and is in keeping with the existing
>   infrastructure.  It treats it as a 3rd party package that we
>   provide pre-compiled and version synchronization is under our 
>   control.
This probably *is* the cleanest solution.  I will volunteer to package 
up the required library; this probably only involves putting together an 
RPM .spec file and submitting the package to a repository.

-- D.



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