From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5IFGcnC017304 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:16:38 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5IFGcZ4017303 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:16:38 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5IFGYnC017300 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:16:34 -0700 Received: from ocean.lucon.org ([12.234.143.38]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020618151923.CPT20219.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@ocean.lucon.org>; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:19:23 +0000 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D195A125C1; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:19:18 -0700 From: "H . J . Lu" To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux and the Sony Playstation 2 Message-ID: <20020618081918.A3774@lucon.org> References: <007601c216d0$6f7f0840$10eca8c0@grendel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <007601c216d0$6f7f0840$10eca8c0@grendel>; from kevink@mips.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:59:57PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > The Sony PS2 Linux kit has been shipping for nearly > a month now, and I'm frankly astonished at how little > I've seen on this mailing list about it. For better or > for worse, this changes everything for MIPS/Linux. > The number of MIPS/Linux users worldwide has > just gone up by at least an order of magnitude, > and they are on a platform running a 2.2.1-derived > kernel and using gcc 2.95.2. > > It's a perfectly usable platform out of the box, but > Carsten has thrown "crashme" at it, and it goes down > relatively quickly. People trying to port kaffe and > other programs that do double-precision float are > blocked because there's no double precision on the > R5900, and the Sony kernel lacks the Algorithmics > emulator. > I looked at PS2 when I was looking for a mips platform for my Linux/mips work. Unfortunately, PS2 doesn't have ll/sc, which makes many things complicated. H.J.