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Hello, |
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I'm wondering, who is the maintainer of the PS3 port? I have a few |
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issues I'd like to raise. One being the fact that it's been built |
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targeting entirely the wrong ppc arch. Several sources I've come |
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across state that the pipelines are so different, that doing this |
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severely hurts performance, and you are in fact better off targeting |
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generic ppc than running 970-targeted binaries on CELL/BE. Also, |
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newer gcc's are available now which have an mcpu=cell target and it |
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would probably be best to make the playstation3 port..... a |
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playstation3 port! And not a ps3 / g5 port. These machines differ so |
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much it is incredibly detrimental to try to support both with the 1 |
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port. Specially when there are better ports existing already for g5. |
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Also, the only available release is still a stage4, that hasn't been |
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updated in a whole year. While I commend the efforts of the |
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maintainer so far (apart from the 970 target mistake), it would be |
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nice if they actually maintained the port, or handed off to someone |
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more willing if they've grown bored with it. |
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It is my impression that this specific port currently does not follow |
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any Gentoo ideals or philosophy, and is desperately in need of change. |
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