This news comes via Gamasutra, Valve Software release their Steam Link SDK on Github. SteamLink is a Linux powered box that enables you to stream your Steam library directly to your TV like you currently can between two PCs today.
From the github readme:
This is the SDK for the Valve Steam Link
Hardware:
The Steam Link hardware is a single core ARMv7 processor using the hard-float ABI, running at 1 GHz, with neon instruction support. It has approximately 256 MB of available RAM and 500 MB of usable flash storage.
Software:
The Steam Link software is custom Linux firmware based on kernel 3.8 and glibc 2.19.
The Steam Link SDK has support for the following major APIs:
OpenGL ES 2.0 Qt 5.4 SDL 2.0The SDL game controller API is recommended for Steam Controller support on the Steam Link.
Contents:
examples very simple example applications to demonstrate how to build applications using the SDK external source code to 3rd party components of the Steam Link, each directory has a "build_soc.sh" script to rebuild the component. kernel Steam Link linux kernel source code rootfs Steam Link root filesystem toolchain GCC toolchain for Steam Link setenv.sh Script to configure build environment
