(10-16-2016, 08:31 AM)leolam Wrote: As a Linux user, freeware definitely isn't a synonym for FOSS…
This still makes absolutely no sense. Firstly, the system menu and channels run on the PPC, but the part of Wii emulation that is really completely HLEd is IOS. Secondly, you don't just use a VM like that; if you "just" used a random VM or qemu, it wouldn't work at all. It has to interact with other parts of the system. Also, PPC isn't an issue for Dolphin, so I don't get your point at all…
I don't know what to tell you in relation to the freeware thing, I have been using Linux (well, OK, Unix but still) almost exclusively for years and have many a time heard freeware used as a synonym for FOSS, but I suppose that part isn't really important. When it comes to the VM, I wasn't expecting it to work out of the box with a vanilla copy of QEMU or anything, when I said "just" I meant that the concept of a VM was not particularly novel. Obviously it would need to be fairly heavily customized in order to run software made for the Wii, however I don't think it would require groundbreaking new ways of emulating hardware. BTW, that also makes me wonder, is the Wii's processor an SoC? I never thought to seek out that info until now. In hindsight probably a pretty important detail. Seeing as its PPC not ARM, and uses BIOS so I wouldn't figure it to be, but I suppose its still possible.
Also when you say "PPC isn't an issue for Dolphin, so I don't get your point at all..." do you mean that Dolphin already emulates/simulates a PPC processor? As I said in an early post on this thread, I am admittedly not too familiar with how Dolphin's internals work, I am just throwing out potential (and likely quite flawed) ideas as to how it might be possible to LLE the Wii's hardware, I never claimed to have an actual answer.
