Xbox Port Roadmap

This page describes the plan of reviving ReactOS port for original Xbox, including components outside the source tree.

Once something is done in this list, it should be simply removed.

Revive ReactOS Xbox port

Progress is tracked in CORE-16216.

Fix USB OHCI - CORE-16352
- Blocks actual OS testing in XQEMU
- Important: check whether the problem is reproduced on real Xbox
Fix PCI-to-PCI bridge PnP problem - CORE-16319
- RealHW only, applied workaround in master - b992727
Fix FindResourceExW debug print problem (low priority)
- Too hard to reproduce

Obtain memory map via multiboot on Xbox - CORE-16300, PR #1971
- Will allow bootvid and xboxvmp to work properly
- Will allow firmware to prepare SMBIOS/PCI BIOS tables in memory
Add bootvid selection into txtsetup.sif and setuplib - FIXME: needs ticket
- See chat message from Hermes Belusca
Fix Xbox HAL to report reserved video memory range for NVIDIA NV2A - FIXME: needs ticket
- See chat message from Thomas Faber
Add ATAPI support into FreeLdr - CORE-16220
- Will allow to test bootcd and livecd
- Add automatic HAL selection in FreeLdr - FIXME: needs ticket
- Could be useful for PC-98 port as well
Add support for Xbox BRFR partitions - CORE-16329
- Requires disk_new driver - CORE-6264
- Blocks testing on real hardware
Fix or implement FATX filesystem driver - CORE-16373
- FATX support should be removed from fastfat, or not, if we switch to fastfat_new (but when?) - CORE-11819
- Blocks testing on real hardware
Add input support in FreeLdr on Xbox - CORE-16218 (low priority)
- freeldr.ini can be modified manually
Add HAL/video/bootvid sections into unattend.inf - FIXME: needs ticket

Fix constants and variables naming in freeldr and xboxvmp from Xbox-Linux to MS (low priority)

Add bootvid driver for Xbox - CORE-16219
- Nice for public demonstration and user experience
Add vgasave driver for NVIDIA NV2A - FIXME: needs ticket
- See chat message from r3mendozal
Add NVIDIA nForce nvnet driver - CORE-15872 (low priority)
- First test with existing closed-source driver
- Potentially will help improving XQEMU nForce net emulation
Improve xboxvmp driver to support NVIDIA hardware acceleration (low priority)
- Add support for 2D acceleration
- Add support for DirectDraw
- Add support for Direct3D
- Add support for OpenGL
- Potentially will help here - CORE-16465

Boot refactoring and improvements
- Refactor Linux CD boot and allow to cancel it
- Improve Linux loading text prints
- General refactoring of boot code
Add multisystem support
- Prepare for multisystem support and more refactoring
- Refactor config entries finalization
- Better function naming for multisystem
- Add nested multisystem boot menu
Fix bug that cleared hardware information
Fix infinite boot loop and refactor timeout a bit
Fix array write out-of-bounds bug in rawread
Add ReactOS boot support
- Add some debug prints for ReactOS boot
- Fix booting ReactOS, specify boot device properly
- Fix interpreting multiboot header according to the spec
- Add ReactOS native partition boot support

Fix glitchy text characters: . _ ( f
Fix boot device label positioning (in 720x480 and 1024x576 screen mode)
Fix static framebuffer address (64 vs 128 MB RAM)
Fix memory map
Fix Xromwell XBE problems on some Xbox'es (at least the one JayFoxRox have)
Add SMBIOS table generation
- Check corresponding data on NVIDIA nForce 420 board
Add PCI BIOS table generation
- Check corresponding data on NVIDIA nForce 420 board
Other published issues: https://github.com/XboxDev/cromwell/issues