From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 19:45:52 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C57BC3F16 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-f52.google.com (mail-it0-f52.google.com [209.85.214.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FB4A1B1B for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-f52.google.com with SMTP id e63so168644902ith.1 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:45:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:references:user-agent:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=sS3t5Vi2rAKhtOJ5aIELyQvjsAdXlU/ih0iyoe5M2WI=; b=iV7r1GgDbHr/fu2KamDxmPKgR1H2i78HPruIekXdsabh5RkL6awAFw7QpyTjYF8Vq2 5kLsaT8kYykOoOCBfti/35T+ehbV516LliFkV/3cPJd1OeqN5P347vlKubhK3YlEZNJy BqlsqmPTtV6mbLNXOALqPmTqGp/t/Kq+7KNzObMidAzUo2yX8UI0E4/lya7o4KiCtV/4 Zsp8GradOZCIymlcXKXSZYEltG+4ShSA0cDYWzhLvPTopj158VAUsENXzF+ALVBalv2v My67dOnk1BPIOTvnl3xn63EeNQvX6MLkwNwcr/I+6eql39gyXr9nUxfKAyG/PqV6PK6w PIVg== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkooutvVqL6mAYGm1rODq4tKV74MBZ4meY5fPA2RgU9xHRzk7DUEVSWq74OqZbQq+Rzaw== X-Received: by 10.36.225.9 with SMTP id n9mr28800696ith.30.1471981550479; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WorkBox.Home.gmail.com (63-231-167-45.mpls.qwest.net. [63.231.167.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o184sm1958306ith.2.2016.08.23.12.45.48 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:45:49 -0700 (PDT) References: <20160806140306.bbd534544c5dc14c7d7c3317@sohara.org> <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.1 From: Brandon J. Wandersee To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? In-reply-to: <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:45:48 -0500 Message-ID: <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:45:52 -0000 Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:05:41 +0200 > Luca Ferrari wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:24:30 +0200 >> > CeDeROM wrote: >> > >> >> Playstation4 runs on FreeBSD :-) >> > >> > I'll bet you can't get a FreeBSD PC to play any PS4 games >> > though. >> > >> >> Uhm..that's interesting. >> I've got a few months to decide which game machine to get for my son, >> and I was wondering to build one by myself. Knowing that PS4 is based >> on FreeBSD is a good news, even if I suspect it's true that porting >> some games to FreeBSD pure machine will not be so easy... > > Getting at the FreeBSD inside the PS4 isn't easy either, I'm not > even sure it's possible. It's irrelevant. FreeBSD doesn't run the games. It runs the proprietary encoding and DRM software and speaks to the custom-made hardware that in turn run the games. Ask yourself how building a custom PC with FreeBSD on it would run Sony the millions of dollars it spent developing the thing. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------