John, I wonder is anyone from Terra Soft monitors this list. I hope so. Since Terra Soft has a relationship with Sony maybe they could shed some light on this video discussion?
John On Jan 9, 2007, at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ted, > >> 1) Will there ever be a way to access the video card directly? The >> drivers already exist, I think. We don't need anything crazy either, >> just some way to watch video in 1080P. So the open-source nvidia X >> driver may just work if the hardware was accessible. If nVidia or >> Sony give us a binary-only 2D-accelerated video driver, that's great. > > I doubt this -- on the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3, I believe all > code runs under a hypervisor e.g. it "virtualizes" everything, so no > code outside of the hypervisor ever accesses hardware directly (for > some evidence, do a "df -k" in bash while running YDL, and notice > that you never see the partition Sony made for GameOS -- the kernel > knows nothing about it because the hypervisor is only letting the > kernel see the non-GameOS partition for Linux). That being said, if > this is true then obviously the hypervisor is accessing the video > hardware (on behalf of PS3 games in GameOS mode, and X while running > Linux), so the games are asking more of the hypervisor than YDL is. > Perhaps Sony hasn't given YDL the means to do this, or perhaps YDL > hasn't implemented it yet, or perhaps i'm completely wrong? > > Regards, > > John > > Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound > http://www.fallingyou.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
