Nintendo DS BSP

[Matthieu Bucchianeri]

Oh my mistake this message belongs to this subject about Nintendo DS!!

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM,  <rtems-users-request at rtems.org> wrote:
>  Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:16:08 -0700
>  From: "Matthieu Bucchianeri" <mbucchia at gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: rtems-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 16
>  To: rtems-users at rtems.org
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>  On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM,  <rtems-users-request at rtems.org> wrote:
>  >  >> + 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.
>  >  >
>  >  Ralf Corsepius hasn't piped up but it would be better if
>  >  it ended up in the RTEMS repository so it could match the
>  >  BSP.  Plus Matthieu did have some patches.
>  >
>
>  This is the simplest solution and given the license of
>  libnds/libfat/dswifi -- ie: no licence -- it could work. When there is
>  a major bug fix or feature improvement in one of these libs, we will
>  need to update the repository.
>
>  For sure we can imagine the next version of libnds/libfat/dswifi won't
>  match the BSP, so this solution also solves this problem.
>
>  About the patches, I think we can avoid them by doing tricky things in
>  the autotools. For example the main problem I have with libnds is that
>  the assembly file are ending with .s while they are not preprocessed
>  (should be .S).
>
>  >  Thanks for offering. Hopefully Ralf won't see any issues
>  >  with offering this as an RPM.
>
>  Even if we decide to provide an RPM, we'll have to change the
>  autotools. An RPM will install the libnds/libfat/dswifi in a
>  privileged directory (like /opt/rtems-4.9/src ...) and it won't be
>  writable (the patch can't be applied as-is).
>
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