Re: XBOX Linux Parralel project

Putting on my negative hat, I can think of a few disadvantages.

1) You'll still need an illegal bios to run these xbes anyway.

You could, as xbeboot, use the mechinstaller exploit for example. The LinXDK would take care of generating the appropriate mechInstaller savegame image itself.

2) You'll probably need an illegal DASH to launch these xbes. A media player 
that launches from CD that then will not let you eject said CDROM to put in a 
movie isn't so much use.

Why noy code an alternative dash itself using LinXDK ?

3) Nobody in the 'scene' outside xbox linux cares about whether things are 
illegal or not anyway. They have no trouble getting hold of xbes of whatever 
they want, evox, xbmc etc.
4) Your 'sdk' will provide a significantly different api to what most XDK-app 
developers have, if indeed you have a coherent API at all. They aren't 
generally Linux developers, so I doubt they will be attracted to something 
radically different with fewer capabilities, with the only plus being that 
it's legal.

The LinXDK would also allow pretty easy porting of any Linux app to XBOX; there are myriads of apps out there for Linux that could be interesting to XBOX users.

5) No 3D acceleration - you already know this one, but hey.

Note that many of the illegal XBEs out there do not use much 3d acceleration (XBMC, E**X etc.)

6) Slower boot time - you need to load Linux then your app, instead of the app 
running directly under the Xbox-OS itself.

We could drop out X and implement SDL on framebuffer directly as Jérôme proposed it. Hacking the kernel would not only allow lower size but also enhanced loading time. Remember it's a micro-distro; most of the loading procedure that makes standard distros slow will be stripped out, only the strict minimum required for the app to run is loaded.


7) A few other disadvantages relating to xbox-linux video drivers - such as 
overscan on 1.6 xboxes, and others.

In your preceding email you mentionned RAM problems. Don't forget we can use the X, Y and Z partitons as swap-partitions; that's what they were build for.


David


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