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Just wanted to clarify something,
Is the new ATV2 version of XBMC an ARM port or an ARM/iOS port?
e.g. what's the possibility of removing iOS from an ATV and installing Debain for example?
Would this new ARM port run on other ARM hardware?
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Other than no one has done it yet, nothing. The boot process is signed. I think the only iOS phone to run another OS is one of the earlier iPhones which they got running Android.
But I think Debian is a much better OS.
Code:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `xbmc_%`.* TO 'xbmc'@'%';
IF you have a mysql problem, find one of the 4 dozen threads already open.
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This particular port is for iOS on ARM and won't run with Linux on ARM. They're entirely different animals.
They have the iphone4 running android too. It's definitely possible, although I haven't seen it on the ATV2. If you did it XBMC wouldn't run on it, though.
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This was one of my first thoughts when they announced xbmc support, is raw linux eventually. But it is arm, so you would need an arm distribution. I think i read that one of the jailbreak teams had linux booting. Which leads to the second and I think larger problem. A graphics driver. From what I gathered there is no good gpu driver right now for the power vr 535. They license the tech out and companies then write the drivers, I think. The available drivers seem to be 2D only. So you would lose out on video decoding etc.
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2011-01-22, 09:46
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-22, 10:03 by soulnothing.)
Oh okay my bad was thinking along the lines of nvidias vdpau. Being a feature of the gpu driver.
