#8516 closed patch
Very basic GP2X Backend
| Reported by: | djwillis | Owned by: | sev- |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Port: GP2X |
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Description
All,
Attached is a very quick patch to start the ball rolling regards eventually making a GP2X backend semi-official.
This is not SVN quality by a long shot but it is somewhere for me to post updates and get feedback as I whip it into shape and clean up some of the more horrid things (controller mapping springs to mind). The port itself is pretty stable and supports most (all?) of the games supported by ScummVM using the GP2X’s hardware downscalar when needed for the SVGA games.
The patch is a quick one taken from my working SVN folder minus any of the current core hacks I have in there (things like switching functions on GameID and playing with zoomed rects). This version is largely hacked off the SDL backend this however is lightly to not be the case forever. It need the hardware optimised versions of SDL for the GP2X linked in when building to facilitate use of things like the hardware scalar and blitter.
It needs some major cleanup and a few formatting tweaks to bring it in line with the ScummVM standards but I thought it was best to get something posted up or I would never get around to it ;-) (I seem to have no free time at the moment).
Features of this patch:
New GP2X backend (backends/gp2x) largely based off SDL with GP2X specific tweaks (enough hacks to justify keeping it separate to SDL in my view). Minor changes (via #IFDEF’s) to several files in the core engine (FMOPL, Saves, that sort of thing). Patches to the configure script to make the GP2X a valid target.
I have been doing GP2X releases for some time based largely on this code (with some core hacks) and hosting them on my site at http://www.distant-earth.com/scummvm
Regards,
John Willis
Ticket imported from: #1432376. Ticket imported from: patches/621.
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Change History (14)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
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comment:2 by , 18 years ago
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
Hi Max,
The port is still under active development outside this patch, (in fact my local tree is based on SVN with the code moved to /backend/platforms). I have been working on stabilising the port, better using the GP2X specifics and ironing out a few bugs prior to updating the attached source (and the current lack of a working GP2X is adding to this temporary hiatus).
As for the port and its relationship with the GP32 in simple terms there is none (other then me hacking around with both ports at one time or another). The GP2X is more the ‘spiritual’ successor to the GP32, it is not made by the same company and other then them both sharing an ARM920 CPU the options for code sharing are superficial for the most part. The GP2X is a very different ScummVM platform in some ways (well can run more engines) as you have access to a bit more RAM, a good POSIX OS (RTEMS or Linux) and things like hardware scalars, blitters etc. anyway that’s enough about that ;).
For reference, this GP2X backend is hacked off of the generic SDL backend as a starting point and in that respect has more in common with the Nokia 770/Maemo backend (SDL based on a low spec portable device). The medium term idea was to move it to fit better within the small systems backend framework as that develops.
Regards,
John Willis
comment:5 by , 18 years ago
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comment:6 by , 18 years ago
Just added a zip with an updated patch and the backends/platform/gp2x dir.
Not had a chance to test this as heavily as I would have liked before submitting as I have had other family commitments. I did this patch bundle on a borrowed machine without so much as a decent *nix toolset but it builds cleanly and a quick eye-ball shows that the core changes are fairly minor and not to evil (I hope, can somebody who knows configure scripts well check I have not broken anything there :o).
There are a fair few new features in the port compared to earlier patches and a corresponding amount of bugs but it's in a decent enough state to build and roll with. Most bugs are engine specific (Simon and Sky mostly), other engines are largely working very well (few save issues and the odd blitting problem).
John
comment:7 by , 18 years ago
Some comments:
* Your change to common/config-manager.cpp is odd. You changed code which used to be marked as UNIX-only to "not-GP2x". Any particular reason for that?
* The configure changes look OK.
* The change to backends/saves/savefile.cpp seems odd... You force the user to store things inside the game data dir, and no other spot is allowed.
comment:8 by , 18 years ago
Hi Max,
Reasons for those 'odd' changes (or at least the logic behind them). I should have put comments in the code (my fault for doing things in a rush).
* common/config-manager.cpp
The GP2X is UNIX/Linux (and defines UNIX) but I don't want this one UNIX define set as for a number of reasons.
You can end up with nasty things like home dir being on a read only NAND partition on the GP2X in some firmware versions so I want to override that and force the file to be in the folder the executable is launched from. However looking at that file again I have no idea what possessed me to do the hack quite like I did. Not exactly clean for other platforms maybe a If UNIX and NOT GP2X and a separate If GP2X would be better.
• backends/saves/savefile.cpp
Thinking about this maybe something in gui/options.cpp and friends or in the default config setup would be cleaner and more customisable?
Again, this change is very similar to the above hack. Games are run from a read/write SD card so it’s a known ‘good’ location to save to. This should be possible to override by the user as you mentioned but at the time this was the quickest (and dirtiest) way to get around the risk of ending up with it trying to save under the read only home dir etc.
Both the above hacks also reflect that the GP2X whist running Linux does not expose much of it’s UNIX’ness to the default target user (you copy files on and off the root of the SD card (seen as /mnt/sd) via a the GP2X showing as a USB mass storage device.
As it’s aimed as a games console my idea was to keep everything under the users choice of root ScummVM folder. Thinking about it maybe ScummVMroot/saves would be a better idea as a default. I don’t want the default saves ending up somewhere the user cannot easily get at them and anything that ends up in home or outside /mnt/sd is just that. Not all users of a games console relish the use of SSH’ing into the device to poke around.
Hope that explains if not justifies the thought process behind the hacks ;). As for cleaner, better ways to get the same general results please shout.
John
by , 18 years ago
| Attachment: | scummvm-gp2x-backend-2006-09-30.zip added |
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scummvm - gp2x - backend and patch - 2006-09-30
comment:9 by , 18 years ago
Updated patch and removed 'odd' core tweaks and commented code where they really are needed (Read only HOME dir).
The only one that may still be out of sorts is the ifdef hack in FMOPL to set the GP2X to low quality I guess.
by , 18 years ago
| Attachment: | scummvm-gp2x-backend-2006-09-30-2.zip added |
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Update to - scummvm - gp2x - backend and patch - 2006-09-30
comment:10 by , 18 years ago
I reviewed the patch, and after short discussion with DJWillis even patches to fmopl.cpp will go away in his next patch version. Additional notes were also passed to him.
Otherwise the patch looks completely OK to commit.
comment:11 by , 18 years ago
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:12 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Port: GP2X |
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So, what's the status of this? And how does it compare to the gp32 backend (AFAIK the GP2x is the successor of the GP32) -- any code sharing possible?