[gst-devel] GNOME & GStreamer v3

[Christian Schaller]

Hi Nick,
Erik Walthinsen our lead developer will try to implement MIPS cothreads
support in the near future (days). This means you can focus on other
areas where there is need for fixes in order for it to compile and run
under Irix.

As for why it was done in assembly, well performance issues. A C
implementation is planned, but since the performance loss is so
significant it has not been a priority. 

If you have questions please come to irc.openprojects.net #gstreamer
where you can find most of the developers inclusing Erik who uses the
nick Omega.

Christian

On 05 Sep 2001 09:24:36 +1000, Nick Blievers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > This is and updated todo list for GStreamer in relation to GNOME. If
> > Erik and Wim thinks it is ok, I will send it to the gnome-love mailing
> > list to see if we can get people to help us with some of these tasks.
> > I have tried adding the issues and items which came up when discussing
> > this with Bastien the last time around. Think we still don't agree on
> > the capplet issue though.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > h) cothreads cores for all GNOME plattforms. PA-RISC and MIPS are the
> > two missing here, plus we need more testing of the other non-intel
> > platforms we already support.
> 	I have access to several MIPS boxes, and would like to help porting
> GStreamer to IRIX. As I understand it, all that really needs to be done
> (apart from lots of testing! ;) ) is a gstirix.h needs to be created that
> defines a few symbols. However, my assembly is not great, so I will need a
> little help. The first question that springs to mind, is why was this done
> in assembly? Surely it could be done in a more portable manner? Secondly,
> can someone please explain EXACTLY what this asm code is supposed to do? I
> get the general gist of it, but obviously need to be precise! Ideally a
> simple test program would be beautiful....
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nick Blievers