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Could someone please explain something here, If playstation 3 and 4 are a modified FreeBSD, and on the 4th version console the graphics are AMD that means they
by hernan604 13y ago
Could someone please explain something here,
If playstation 3 and 4 are a modified FreeBSD, and on the 4th version console the graphics are AMD that means they (sony and amd) have some sort of driver for this platform. And its not a bad one, because they chose AMD for play4.
Why that has not been release to the FreeBSD audience ? When is this expected to happen ?
- wmf 13y agoSony doesn't release anything. Because they don't want to. Also, I would hope that Mesa drivers work on FreeBSD.
- profquail 13y agoSony contributes back to FreeBSD. You can find at least a few examples using GitHub search: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/search?q=%22sony+computer%22&type=Code https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/search?q=%22sony+computer... Note: these aren't the only examples of Sony contributing back to FreeBSD, they were just the easiest to find. IMO, AMD would really need to be the one to contribute drivers back to FreeBSD.
- toyg 13y agoWhy should Sony (or AMD) care about FreeBSD? Chances are they picked it because it was the less licence-encumbered freenix they could find.
- cperciva 13y agoThe PS4 runs FreeBSD on AMD hardware, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the same AMD hardware as you or I have access to. If you're buying 50,000,000 units, AMD will design a chip for you.
- lucian1900 13y agoNot only that, but they allow quite low level access to the hardware. One would have to build, say, libGL on top of whatever drivers Sony might have built.
- belorn 13y agoIf you want to know why, the only way is to ask them. This is BSD, so the authors want companies to be able to keep the modifications and drivers proprietary if they choose to do so. So in this case, its very much possible that the when is "never" and why is "money".