SH4, Enigma2 and git(s)

[Audioniek]

Hello everybody,

About two weeks ago the buildsystem-git maintained by Max Wiesel was stripped of the capability to build Enigma2 with it. Max has made a copy of that git as buildsystem_old which still can build E2. What Max's plans are with the buildsystem_old git is not clear to me at this point in time, the emphasis seems to shift from SH4 to ARM and from E2 towards Neutrino.

I start this thread to inform everybody that I plan to support the SH4-boxes and E2 for as long as this is feasable. In this respect it should be noted that STM (the chipmaker) has stopped development of SH4 some time ago, so new SH4-hardware is not likely to appear in the future. At some point in time it is quite possible that E2 (which is steadily developed further) cannot be made to work properly on SH4, due to technical limitations. Also keep in mind that the oldest SH4 HD-boxes (Topfield TF7700HDPVR and first generation Fortis models for instance) now have an age of over ten years and should be regarded as obsolete.

Meanwhile, Bonkel is switching over to my git to build the SH4 E2 images. I will try to keep the git updated for at least as long as HDMU needs it.

Regarding my git, I am contemplating to remove all ARM-stuff, making it a strict SH4-git again as it used to be.

Greetings,

Audioniek.