Comment by bonzini
9 years ago
> It used to be stuff we did for fun.
We still do! When I added Retroarch to my HTPC I wanted it to use the "ok" and "power" buttons on my remote instead of "enter" and "escape" which are only found on a keyboard. While I did contribute a patch to the Retroarch project, which I tested using a laptop, binary patching was much easier on the Raspberry Pi ARM binaries than figuring out the build system for LibreELEC (the binary patch drops support for enter/escape, so it's literally changing two bytes for the two keycodes).
It stopped being fun for me when I moved to an x86 box, I'm afraid. Though I do get my share of asm thanks to my (very slow moving) Ruby compiler project, it's more painful than fun.