SDL on Sony Playstation3

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Installation:

  First, you have to install the Cell SDK

  - Download the Cell SDK installer RPM and ISO images to

    a temporary directory such as /tmp/cellsdk.

  - Mount the image: mount -o loop CellSDK-Devel-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso /tmp/cellsdk

  - Install the SDK installer: rpm -ivh cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm

  - Install the SDK: cd /opt/cell && ./cellsdk --iso /tmp/cellsdkiso install

  You'll than need to install the SPU-libs

  - Run make ps3-libs && make ps3libs-install

  Finally, install SDL

  - Go to SDL-1.2/ and build SDL like any other GNU style package.

  e.g.

    - Build the configure-script with ./autogen.sh

    - Configure SDL for your needs: ./configure --enable-video-ps3 ...

    - Build and install it: make && make install

Todo:

  - Mouse & Keyboard support

  - On SPU-side the current scaler and converter restrictions are:

    - resolution has to be a multiple of 8 (will work on that)

    - scaler/converter only supports the YV12 and IYUV format

    - the scaler works only bilinear (lanzos would be nice)

  - Optimize the SPU-program handling on the PPE side

  - Integrate spumedia in SDL

Have fun!

  Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer [at] de [dot ibm [dot] com>