From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3695 invoked by alias); 28 May 2003 21:16:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3606 invoked from network); 28 May 2003 21:16:17 -0000 Subject: Re: ISO9660 support From: Gary Thomas To: Bart Veer Cc: jifl@eCosCentric.com, eCos Maintainers , Jesper Skov In-Reply-To: <20030528210514.40414EC6F1@delenn.bartv.net> References: <1054127542.8848.3988.camel@hermes> <3ED4B6BD.5090706@eCosCentric.com> <20030528210514.40414EC6F1@delenn.bartv.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1054156576.8848.5494.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:16:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:05, Bart Veer wrote: > >>>>> "Jifl" == Jonathan Larmour writes: > > Jifl> Gary Thomas wrote: > >> Gents, > >> > >> A long time ago (Dec 2001), Jesper was working on a contributed > >> port for the Sega (IIRC) that included ISO9660 support in > >> RedBoot. That never made it into the official tree, for legal > >> reasons I believe. Does anyone know what happened there? Is > >> there some way we can follow up on this and get the support put > >> in? > >> > >> Just because it would be nice and also the remnants that are > >> left make the code messy for little reason. > > Jifl> FYI I don't have the original contrib any more so I hope > Jifl> someone else does. I believe part of the issue was that it > Jifl> was added pretty much as a crude hack, rather than it being > Jifl> legal issues (the rest of the dreamcast port was assigned > Jifl> obviously). And there was no way to test it too as you > Jifl> needed some special equipment IIRC. But Jesper will know so > Jifl> I'll shut up :-). > > I might still have the contrib somewhere, but a better place to look > is http://www.m17n.org/dodes/ecos/. That takes you to a CVS repository > containing > http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/ecos/ecos/packages/fs/iso/?cvsroot=superh > > You should also be aware that a dreamcast does not have an ordinary CD > drive. Instead it has a GD drive with ~1GB capacity. From another > website: > > "A GD-ROM disk actually consits of two data regions, separated by a > data-less separator ring. The inner region contains a normal Yellow > Book CD-ROM track, and a Red Book CD-DA track. This region can be read > in any CD drive. The outer region (outside the separator ring) is the > high-density area which contains the actual game data (both files and > CD-DA audio)." > > I don't know if that affected the ISO support, they may have supported > the inner region only. > Thanks for the pointer. I've downloaded the code and I'll give it a glance to see if somehow we can use it. On first look it seems to be a little too Dreamcast specific and there are no copyrights in the code, so it may take a little effort to bring it in. -- Gary Thomas MLB Associates