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The sad part is that, being on console hardware for a long time with chip derived from their main lines (and being in all 3 "main" consoles of this new generati
by nolok 13y ago
The sad part is that, being on console hardware for a long time with chip derived from their main lines (and being in all 3 "main" consoles of this new generation), AMD obviously already has some great drivers for *nix systems, so it's not like they can't do it or would have to start from scratch.
How much of that is legal impossibility, secrets protection or simply not caring enough, well ...
- ANTSANTS 13y agoThe PS4 is the only console ever to have an AMD GPU that runs a conventional Unix (FreeBSD). Obviously Microsoft's consoles wouldn't, and Nintendo uses their clunky "IOS." In any case, the interface exposed by most consoles to game developers is significantly lower level than anything resembling a desktop graphics driver, especially since each platform only has to support a single GPU configuration, so I highly doubt there's any useful (for our purposes) code tied up in there.
- Narishma 13y agoThe consoles don't use the same graphics stack as regular computers, so having drivers for them doesn't help in anyway on a Unix system.