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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