Re: Xbox support in mainline => no go

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 11:56, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I guess I'll give up my attempts to get Xbox support in the mainline
> kernel. I sent in patches several times, but I didn't get any response.
> After mailing with Andrew and Linus, I guess it is best to give up... for
> now ;-)
>
> Yours,

Maybe the patches could be broken down into individual blocks of functionality 
so legitimate reasons for their usefulness to desktop users can be given. eg. 
FATX support is necessary for accessing memory cards. Joypad and IR support 
is useful for people with adaptor boxes (and there's already support for 
similar psx/n64 devices). Also it's not just the kernel where things can be 
sent upstream; IR support needs adding to lirc, run-time chipset detection to 
alsa (currently, there is a compile time xbox option in cvs), video patches 
to xorg. Getting any of these things included would reduce the xbox specific 
patchset to a more manageable size.


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