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On Monday 24 May 2004 02:33 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:27:39PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:48:25 -0400 Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote: |
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> > | I'm looking for comments on what, exactly, constitutes a platform |
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> > | worth recruiting developers for. |
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> > Isn't the xbox just an x86 subarch? The way I see it, x86 recruiting for |
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> > xbox support would be like, for example, Sparc recruiting a developer |
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> > specifically to work on JavaStations. If these people were being brought |
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> > on board to help with maintaining x86, with additional specialisation |
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> > for xbox, it might make more sense... |
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> Yeah, that's why I'm looking for a list of precisely what would need to |
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> be done in the tree for it. As far as I can tell they mostly don't need |
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> anything but a patched kernel. |
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i guess i'll comment since i'm the one who is backing these three new guys. |
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(1) it is just using x86 ARCH with a custom profile |
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(2) they're coming on to maintain a set of xbox specific packages (more than |
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just the kern sources) ... look at the bugs i own atm to see some of them ... |
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theres about 7 iirc |
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(3) we cant just go adding packages to portage w/out being able to test or |
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maintain them; thus that is what they'll be doing ... yes it's just an x86, |
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but how are you going to test a package that works for xbox-specific hardware |
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(boot/flash/video/livecd/etc...) ? |
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(4) right now they're coming on to do just xbox stuff, but how many developers |
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out there who came in to do one specific job stayed doing *just* that |
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job ? :) i came on to do *just* bug-wrangling and now i have the official |
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'break the tree' position |
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-mike |
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