Hello,
I plan to make more changes to sm501 emulation to make it more usable for
AmigaOS and other Amiga like OSes. This would include first cleaning up of
current state, then trying to optimise 2D ops and display updates because
it was found these are currently quite slow. (Especially when using 8bit
or 16bit screen modes as AmigaOS does where every screen update does pixel
format conversion with a simple loop in a suboptimal way. Maybe we can use
more optimal pixman routines for these.)
We have found while merging previous patches that the status of sm501 is
not clear. It was originally part of SH emulation added for the R2D board
but now it's also used by PPC sam460ex board (and can be used with mac99
as well to run MorphOS that does not yet boot on sam460ex). David Gibson,
the PPC maintainer has indicated that he can't review changes to this
device and it is not really related to PPC so the practice of merging
sm501 patches via his PPC tree is not preferred.
So before sending more patches I'd like to clear who can review and merge
patches for sm501 in the future and what is the maintainership of this
device?
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
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