The main place for entertainment options, the Content area, is prominently displayed with large square icons on a horizontal line arranged by the most recently used. The PlayStation 4's user interface attempts simplicity as a priority. This dynamic menu can alter itself so that there's as little time as possible between the users placing a game in the disc drive and the actual gameplay beginning. This makes navigation simpler than the previous iteration. It is named "Dynamic Menu" because the options it offers to players are context-sensitive, changing based on what a player is actually doing with their PlayStation 4 at any given time. The PlayStation 4 uses the PlayStation Dynamic Menu as its graphical shell, in contrast to the XrossMediaBar (XMB) used by the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3, as well as the LiveArea used by the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV. The Software Development Kit (SDK) is based on LLVM and Clang, which Sony has chosen due to its conformant C and C++ front-ends, C++11 support, compiler optimization and diagnostics. Many of these are open-source software, although the PlayStation 4 is not an open console.
īesides the kernel and related components, other components included and worth mentioning are Cairo, jQuery, Lua, Mono, OpenSSL, WebKit, and the Pixman rendering library. It has been suggested that the PlayStation Shader Language is very similar to the HLSL standard in DirectX 12, with just subtle differences that could be eliminated mostly through preprocessor macros. Sony's own PlayStation Shader Language (PSSL) was introduced to the PlayStation 4. This can be a familiar way to work if the developers are used to platforms like Direct3D 12.Īnother key area of the game is its programmable pixel shaders. Most developers start with Gnmx, which wraps around Gnm, and in turn manages the more esoteric GPU details. The PlayStation 4 features two graphics APIs, a low-level API named Gnm and a high-level API named Gnmx. The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012.
The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD 9. The PlayStation 4 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 4. Monolithic with dynamically loadable modules
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