Per Ekström wrote: > Hi everyone! > > My name is Per Ekström, and I'm the Lead Dev for the firmware of the > Open Game > Console project[1]. We're trying to develop a completely open console > built from > commodity hardware, and hope to be able to stand up to the big three (Sony, > Microsoft, Nintendo) if not in popularity, then atleast in terms of raw > power. We're > currently aiming for a release around Q4 2008. Read more on our website. > > So, I'm currently drawing up the plans for the firmware, and it looks > like I'll be using > LinuxBIOS+Matchbox Linux for it. What I want to do ultimately is to > create a small > system that have all the stuff neccessary to run OpenGL + OpenAL + OIS > (Object > Oriented Input System), and fit it on a 2MB BIOS chip.. Some people say > it's > impossible, I say it's a question of m4d h4xx0rzing skillz(tm). ;)
I remember I could put Linux-2.4, glibc, BusyBox, parted (and other filesystem tools), DirectFB, LiTE, DFBTerm and DFBSee on a 1.44M floppy disk. But that was two years ago. > > So I'm planning to use the following components: > > LB-Distro (A distro based on LinuxBIOS) > OpenGL: DirectFB+Nouveau drivers (trying to cut away everything > unneccessary) Mmmm... so why you need Matchbox if you are using DirectFB? > OpenAL: ALSA+Drivers+OpenAL library (Again, keeping it as small & > lightweight as > possible) Why don't you use alsa OSS emulation instead? This way you can save some space by not installing libasound (about 700KB on my system). > OIS: OIS packages (Also built) > > Only trouble with that plan is that DirectFB doesn't support any closed > source > drivers, and we want to use the latest nVidia card out there. Would it > be possible to > take the Nouveau drivers and cram it into DirectFB, with a few slight > modifications? > And is anyone already working on such a project? My will is always to port the driver to newer chipsets, but my hardware is limited to a GeForce2 MX400 actually. Porting the Nouveau DRI driver to DirectFBGL shouldn't be difficult according to me. However I can only make it work with NV10 and older chipsets. > > Thanks for your time, I appreciate any answers you can give me. :) > > Regards, > Per Ekström > Lead Dev, Open Game Console > > [1] http://www.opengameconsole.org/ <http://www.opengameconsole.org/> > Had a look at the hardware specification on the website: AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, NVIDIA nForce 570.... it seems a bit expensive! Who will buy a console that costs more than a PC? -- Regards, Claudio Ciccani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://directfb.org http://sf.net/projects/php-directfb _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
