Originally Posted by Mathieulh
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the efforts done by HelldashX to improve custom firmwares and I do appreciate the inovations he has been doing up to now but :
1. I have yet to see if he is capable of porting the SE/OE/M33 patches to a different kernel revision (which otherwise would compromise the future of his HX firmware)
2. We canned the fact that the params of the recovery were kept on M33 on purpose because it was the cause of lots of bugs that led people to have to format flash1, putting it back will only bring those bugs back as well.
3. Putting the iso cache to flash1 will indeed decrease the time the isos take to list under the game folder, but it will also dramatically decrease the psp's flash lifespan (because of the constent accesses to the cache, especially each time you put in a new iso which makes the cache having to regenerate itself) Thus people will end up with bricks before they know it, and it can be hazardous to the psp itself, hence why we chose to set the cache on the MS especially as you need one to store isos anyway.
4. About the updater, the elemets were allready checksummed as far as I know, thus there is no need to check each of those one by one.
Finally the 2 last points are more as a personal message to him:
5. We like new cfw initiatives but rather than use our code (especially since the kernel part is absolutely untouched) and call it a new cfw, it would be better if you simply used your own code from scrap, otherwise it is just a M33 with several unofficial additions and another name, the issue with that is that the M33 project is still being done and we dislike seeing unofficial patches arround, because then we have questions about those etc etc, rather than inclueding what we add using our own code, why don't you make your own features ? Also beware that we wont give any support to the HX fw or whatever, we will just let it be, we will release our patches despite what you release in your fw. We wont have a concern about compatibility issues from HX to M33, we have our project, we have yours, too bad yours use 99% of code from our project though.
6. Back in the OE days we made a project on lan.st to allow developers to submit new features to the OE firmwares (and being credited for it) unfortunately this amptempt was unsuccessful and then we had to "hide" a little using M33 as a coverup and had to give up on this project, nevertheless we are allways open to discussions and be glad to join our efforts if you wish to. If you have any suggestions of any new features/idea and are willing to share sources from those we would be happy to listen.
Finally if you really want to have full credits of coding a cfw, you should code it from scrap, not only it would be more fun, but much more learn worthy.
Still Cheers and good luck with your project.
