On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, David Given <[email protected]> wrote: > So I appear to be terminally stuck with my vfork() issue --- I think > there's at least one thing wrong that I'm doing plus at least one thing > wrong that Prex is doing. The next stage is to try and duplicate the > issue on GBA and right now I don't have the energy to build the wacky > gcc variant it needs. >
Hi david, Has much changed in this area of Prex since 0.8.1? Maybe there its an issue in 0.9? > However: in the process of working on the Cybiko, I ran out of ROM space > (it's only got 256kB). To work round this I implemented a compressed ROM > file system using zlib's puff lightweight inflator. This compresses each > 512 byte block individually so the compression ratio's not brilliant, > but it's still achieving about 2:1 and supports true random access. puff > is about 2kB of code and is under a pretty much identical license to Prex. > > So is this useful to anybody? Shall I try and clean up the patch, and if > so, what should I do with it (the Prex mailing list doesn't seem to > accept patches)? > This sounds interesting. The mailing list only accepts patches as inline text. I can make a 0.9 branch available on github if that helps? Andrew > One complication is that it needs a custom program to create the > compressed file system image, and right now the Prex build system > doesn't support these --- I have a hack that builds and runs it as > required. This needs to be cleaned up. > > -- > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── > │ > │ life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } > │ --- Conway's Game Of Life, in one line of APL > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultima > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Prex-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/prex-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Prex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/prex-devel
