Server on Raspberry Pi

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feamorx86
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Server on Raspberry Pi

Post by feamorx86 » 2012-08-12, 08:35

First of all sorry for Google translate :)
I'm working on a project in the third person shooter. The project is planned as a small, TPS MMO. The game will take place on the maps of average size. The maximum online players on a map : 20, and near 100 monsters in one time. Game server (a console application for Linux / FreeBSD) will be placed on dedicated or virtual servers. As a game engine is considered Cafu.

There is a crazy idea: For servers using minicomputers "Raspberri PI" (700 mHz APM cpu SoC, 256 ram, SD-card, Ethernet, with Android / ARM Ubuntu / ARM Debian OS)!
Hence the question: Is it possible to compile the engine under the ARM processors? It is natural that possible, but how much need to work to do this?

about Raspberry PI
https://www.google.ru/search?q=raspberry%20pi
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Re: Server on Raspberry Pi

Post by HWGuy » 2012-08-12, 10:15

I doubt it'd have the power to have low latency PvP combat unless you had really low power optimized AI and not much else happening.

Cafu should be portable to ARM, a lot of libs work on ARM and you could have a null video/audio and run it CLI only since it's just to act as a server.
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Re: Server on Raspberry Pi

Post by Carsten » 2012-08-12, 11:31

Hi feamorx86,
welcome to the Cafu forums! :welcome:

I think that a port to ARM should in principle be possible, but I'm also sure that there will be a number of details that a port had to deal with, such as endianness, floating-point issues, libraries, just to name a few.

Regarding performance, I'd fully expect the Raspberry PI to be fast enough to run a dedicated server.

That is, while I don't expect creating a port to be particularly difficult, it probably requires some patience. How much exactly, I unfortunately cannot tell, as I've no ARM hardware available and at the moment not enough spare time to attempt a port myself.
As always, if you want to give it a try, I'd be happy to assist wherever I can. :up:
Best regards,
Carsten
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Re: Server on Raspberry Pi

Post by feamorx86 » 2012-08-12, 13:09

Thank you for your reply! And the support =)
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