DS port status and future direction
Salva Peiró
Right now i think the port is in quite a good shape;
we've fixed many bugs during the last weeks which should make things easier,
and we are redesigning some bits to prepare for the next steps
(looking at the code is recomended).
We've started to serve a kfs(4) filesystem with the contents of the Inferno
distribution from /dev/ndsrom read-only memory for storage,
which will free up some ram which was previously used by the root(3) filesystem.
And seems it's the right time to start thinking about networking,
dldi, jit, audio.
Any takers/testers who want to give it a try, right now we can run limbo apps,
like wm/wm, acme and the rest of applications shipped with Inferno.
We (who?)* are thinking about joining this year's iwp9,
we're open minded about what to do there:
assisting or present something related to inferno-ds:
experiences about the development process, aplications/ideas, perform
demos, ...
I think being at iwp9 will be good for a few reasons:
0) "... but mostly I think it's the the fame and the money" (Zaphod)**,
and also seems a good time visit Greece.
1) we need to keep people interested, otherwise there's no inferno-ds
2) related to 1), i'd like to get more skilled people to join inferno-ds
3) after having joined to develop inferno-ds i see it has a some benefits
over the rest of homebrew development.
These benefits basically boil down at making things easier to the developer,
and by extension to the users (right now ourselves :-) ).
On the other DS projects i've used/seen you always have the feel
that the code, tools and build process are getting in your way
instead of helping.
I think that those benefits have also helped to the progress of the DS port.
who?*: Noah, Mechiel and Salva (me).
(Zaphod)**: "it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure,
but mostly I think it's the fame and the money ...", Zaphod Beeblebrox
Best Regards,
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salva