| From: | Sander Assenbroek Machielsen |
| Date: | 03 Dec 99 at 15:24:21 |
| Subject: | [warpup] Re: WOS -> PUP |
On 03-Dec-99, Rajnai Almos wrote:
> Hello There!
> I know that this list is about WarpOS, but I have a question, to be
> asked, and I could not find any forum to ask...
> I am in a PPC project, our goal is porting (some parts, at least) of
> Moovid (the popular MOV/QT/AVI video player) to PowerPC. I like WOS
> very much, so I assured Laszlo Torok (the author of the 68k version),
> and we built a library for codecs and other features.
> After the first betas a lot of users asked for PowerUP version. My
> first reaction was a total rejection of this possiblilty, I did not
> want that painful work.
> Unfortunately we get more and more requests for the PUP version, so
> Laszlo told me that we should try to create a transparent solution.
> First I tought that it will be an easy job: there is not too much to
> do: some simple context-switches, when some of the ported features
> used. We make two different library one for WOS, and one for PUP.
> But... Under PUP I can't get the relocated symbols, and even if I
> could reach them somehow, there is no possibility of calling a PPC
> code directly from the 68k side. (I did not find any solution.)
> So much painfully I have to build up a message system, but I have no
> intention at all to do so.
Have you tried PPC680x0? It can convert 68K code to PPC, supporting both WOS and
PUP. You can download the latest demo at:
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/dev/asm/PPC680x0V1.10.lha
Good luck!
Sander