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Mainlining #92
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Unless a critical component of 3ds-linux incurs major changes to the core Linux code, such as the situation with linux-wiiu being unable to be ported as the USB drivers require a patch to the critical Linux system which would potentially cause bugs that affect all Linux devices, can somebody mainline the 3DS Linux patches?
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Wolfvak commentedon Feb 26, 2024
MPCore support was dropped recently (see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=2560cffd2134c2e070dee369b37f6e55438087f9) so there's technically no kernel support for this processor right now
ParzivalWolfram commentedon Feb 26, 2024
Not to mention that there's no real way it'd pass some of the more stringent requirements for code quality in the Linux kernel. I can't clean them up, either, unfortunately, they're better than I can make in the first place. They would need rewritten to use some of the tweaked 6.x APIs as well.
upintheairsheep commentedon Mar 3, 2024
Well the only way a mainline would be possible is if someone could somehow maintain and revive MPCore support, however CPU caching and DMA (the memory management system) is outside my knowledge right now.