SH4, Enigma2 and git(s)

[joeuser]

Selbst wenn jemand die SH4 Hardware in den 3er Kernel wieder einbaut, player2 Module anpasst, etc.
Bedeutet es noch lange nicht, das es besser / schneller / stabiler läuft als mit Kernel 2.6.32.71

I agree. Unless there is some driving need to change the kernel, I am not sure anyone has the free time for all the work required. Also there seems to be no interest from those using oe-alliance to upgrade either.

I gave up on the duckbox developers' build environment about a year ago and switched to using oe-alliance (Taapat and MastaGs' gits). But I still use the drivers from duckbox developers. There are advantages and disadvantages to both build environments and not being a developer, I have to heavily rely on work from others. A short time ago when I noticed the dropping of enigma2 from buildsystem-ddt, I started looking into using Audioniek's git, but have not had the time to do much. If Audioniek is dedicated to continuing, I would be happy to follow his git and contribute what I can. But I only have an alien2 (spark7162) to play with...

BTW -= I know MastaG has been testing with gcc 4.9.4, but I have not tried it yet.

[Audioniek]

But I still use the drivers from duckbox developers.

Please note that in the drivers section the greatest difference between my git that that of duckbox-developrers exist. For the Sparks and Fortis you will find many improvements. In somewhat lesser regard this is also true for the apps and flash gits.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both build environments

I agree. I spent some time with oe-alliance and abandoned it for the following reasons:

• When building on the same machine a build with oe-alliance takes more than five times longer;
• You need to learn a new "language": BitBake;
• It is a lot of work to add SH4 boxes other than Sparks and I found the process cumbersome and not very logical;
• For SH4, oe-alliance relies heavily on the gits also used by the buildsystem, so why complicate things and not use the source directly?;
• After a build is complete, the oe-alliance system has created over a million files and needs quite a bit of diskspace.

Regards,

Audioniek.