Well, decided to give gnome 2.4 a try. This proved to be rather entertaining, as the last time I attempted to build gnome by source was many years ago, and that required much hacking just to get the thing to pretend to build. Gave garnome a try, and that seemed to work pretty well, though several packages needed some persistent prodding before they wanted to work on my rh7.3 workstation. Now just have to wait and see how painful this will be under osx. Also, in regards to all of the recent gnome-blog traffic in the recentlog, I was surprised to have it die randomly after hardly any text entry. I'll stick with mozilla and safari for now.

Got around to starting on some DocBook stuff for sh, which also proved to be interesting. Most of it is behaving quite well, except I seem to be getting duplicated description entries from referenced source. I've not seen this before, and don't see anything obvious looking at the parser. This needs more investigation. Oddly enough, this seems to only occur on certain source files, and is completely isolated to the description, as all other fields are parsed correctly. Most irritating.

Minor other work on the sh tree. Added in compatability hooks for the old ISA DMA API to wrap to the SH DMA API, which did a pretty decent job of outlining a lot of the limitations with the old API on this particular hardware. However, for anyone wanting less-than-exciting single-address DMA transfers without hacking things for the new API, this seems to work just fine. We also now do proper cpu flag reporting as well as some cache reporting in cpuinfo, though nothing particularly exciting.