From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4m8p-0000zd-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:50:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2919CE05E6; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BDFE05E6 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so2486363fga.14 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=pH2bOrY14kUFpQsYoEP8Ts7T6wSPPFt2OKuxvr6JgQc=; b=m1ywiavUNVQMwxasJHoE6aFmzyiVQ5enT1SnxqY/a/8lAskziJ7Y3Az0QtSp23ctD4 9wnQSnIIxx6alG8f86ok5qHdF1brDGwLtMWe4H5JRUW5ttM+OYfXqRmsmQx1Ri2Wt0VD Elf+f1/cv8cTk8r1P/UTGALkL3OPgbAWdaG0s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Mj+jB6hFQoD1Jf+D+VcxyKd0eMUlkWt9/k+yYy56HFJMIeB7bJTVKSkYmw/Lryy3sU MY22upqewfGckr8lAhKFRUyTmg5GdqjNy5G7/DwLE+MS6kAN0f614q0lnitNeS83GvKb Xnvao/jG4hpAzdrilZmQcQGlI18+pFHWYhBCs= Received: by 10.187.166.4 with SMTP id t4mr700304fao.73.1227574256586; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.187.185.7 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2899e2610811241650m58877e2dqb5548d884843981d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:50:56 +1100 From: Wes To: gentoo-ppc-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-ppc-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 714f3b16-97bb-47bd-8751-dce8d90d8be9 X-Archives-Hash: e39b2ae36c25231be6d5feb62dcdfefb Hello, I'm wondering, who is the maintainer of the PS3 port? I have a few issues I'd like to raise. One being the fact that it's been built targeting entirely the wrong ppc arch. Several sources I've come across state that the pipelines are so different, that doing this severely hurts performance, and you are in fact better off targeting generic ppc than running 970-targeted binaries on CELL/BE. Also, newer gcc's are available now which have an mcpu=cell target and it would probably be best to make the playstation3 port..... a playstation3 port! And not a ps3 / g5 port. These machines differ so much it is incredibly detrimental to try to support both with the 1 port. Specially when there are better ports existing already for g5. Also, the only available release is still a stage4, that hasn't been updated in a whole year. While I commend the efforts of the maintainer so far (apart from the 970 target mistake), it would be nice if they actually maintained the port, or handed off to someone more willing if they've grown bored with it. It is my impression that this specific port currently does not follow any Gentoo ideals or philosophy, and is desperately in need of change.