[PATCHES] PPC (PowerPC) Linux support for powerpc-linux and powerpc64-linux targets

As discussed in the related feature suggestion thread that can be found about porting XBMC for Linux to PowerPC:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=32320

Araldor and I are correctly actively working on porting XBMC for Linux to compile on PowerPC.

I am personally working on the powerpc-linux version build, using OpenGL (Mac Mini G4 PPC),
Araldor is working on the powerpc64-linux version build, without OpenGL (PS3 PPC64).

The current status on my own side is:
- GUI fully working, still some colour issues.
- Audio playback working with MADCodec.
- Video playback working with DVDPlayer.

Here is a first patch to simply include the two targets in the compilation scripts, and to seek for the right library names:
http://www.4shared.com/file/53228259/dd6...1diff.html

Other patches are coming to fix little/big endian issues (wrong colors, noisy sound). I must clean my code and review with Araldor before.

Could this patch be commit to SVN please?

i don't like to add those header changes before the libraries actually exists. the header update should be part of the same commit as the libraries themself. i will commit the other two small things though

and can you please make a patch per feature, not a patch per file.

cheers

FYI; our guidelines for the prefered patch format are available in the XBMC Online Manual (wiki):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_submit_a_patch
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appendix_D:_...ment_Notes

PS! The SourceForge trackers are offline now while we are in the process of moving to TRAC.

OK, here is a new feature: "MP3 playback working on powerpc-linux platform"

You will find a diff and a shared library here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/53488719/232...cktar.html

The files concerned are:
XBMC/xbmc/cores/paplayer/DllMadCodec.h
XBMC/xbmc/cores/paplayer_linux.cpp
XBMC/system/players/paplayer/MADCodec-powerpc-linux.so

The library MADCodec.so has been compiled from XBMC/sources/paplayer/MP3Codec without any modification (thank you linux).

New feature: "ID3TAGs support for powerpc-linux"

One file modified and one new shared library:
http://www.4shared.com/file/53492270/58b...agtar.html

Regards
-Cedric

both commited - cheers. i assume the second one didn't require any changes to the id3 sources

Doesn't the .so libraries have to be compiled for both 32-bit and 64-bit?

Thanks again!

Gamester17 Wrote:Doesn't the .so libraries have to be compiled for both 32-bit and 64-bit?

Thanks again!

Likely, but he may not be able to do both from his machine. Though you're right that the file names should reflect the target better.

spiff Wrote:both commited - cheers. i assume the second one didn't require any changes to the id3 sources

Indeed, I forgot to mention it.
No modification needed in sources/libid3tag

malloc Wrote:Likely, but he may not be able to do both from his machine. Though you're right that the file names should reflect the target better.

You right, I can not generate powerpc64-linux libraries with my macmini, except with cross-compilation, but I am not sure of how to do that. I will ask Araldor for these libraries.