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It would be easier for developers to port their Linux games to the PS4.
by jhasse 11y ago
It would be easier for developers to port their Linux games to the PS4.
- yo-code-sucks 11y agoBullshit, posix. Porting from Linux to BSD is a walk in the park.
- Sanddancer 11y agoFreeBSD has a Linux compatibility module that works for most binaries, and source should be just a recompile in almost all cases.
- feld 11y agoHow? A console is a very specialized device. The GPU access is vastly different from what you get when you use accelerated drivers on Linux/FreeBSD, for example. If you can compile it on Linux, you can probably compile it on FreeBSD. Sorting out the rest is not OS specific, it's a completely different beast.
- iamcreasy 11y ago> The GPU access is vastly different from what you get when you use accelerated drivers on Linux/FreeBSD, for example. Can you elaborate on this one. How are they different?
- cmrx64 11y agoYou don't use OpenGL etc, you use their proprietary graphics API.
- iamcreasy 11y agoLooks like Sony is far far away from developing something like XBox dev mode.
- feld 11y agoYou're pushing raw data to the GPU which is directly executed. I've heard there's a ~15% performance increase doing it this way, but you could never do this with a general purpose OS due to the huge security problems it creates.