Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Who is running this show?

[Tori H. <tor...@ya...>]

So far, I wasn't too impressed with PS2 Linux.  It is
great to have a linux running on PS2 and able to
learn/experiment with it.  There are already some
people made games on PS2 Linux.  It does require
somewhat knowledge on assembly and C programming. 
There are no Java support nor IE/Netscape.  After all,
there are only 32MB ram available and when X11 takes
almost 10+MB away.  It is great though if you are
trying to learn how PS2 works specially the topic
related to making games.

sincerely

--- "M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...> wrote:
> * John Thornton <jth...@ha...> on
> Sun, Jan 06, 2002:
> 
> > 
> > Please do. I would like to know what you think.
> That us if you have the
> > time.
> > 
> 
> I'm not much of a political person in that respect. 
> I don't think
> politicians make good hackers, emotions get too
> muddled up, and it seems
> like your "issues" with Sony are more politically
> motivated rather than hacker
> motivated.  That's not really my thing :P.  Too bad
> you aren't in this for
> the fun of hacking the PS2.
> 
> > 
> > This is great news. Do you have a kit? Has anyone
> gotten it to work without
> > a kit?
> > 
> 
> Nope, I don't have a kit.  I'm still heavily active
> in Dreamcast
> homebrew/Linux stuff, so I haven't dedicated myself
> to PS2/Linux projects
> yet.  I do believe it's possible (using the homebrew
> boot methods and/or
> USB loaders available) to get a PS2/Linux kernel
> booting on a US PS2.
> 
> The main problem I see is that a huge chunk of PS2
> kernel code is binary
> only, Sony uses a bootloader mechanism called
> "SBIOS" from their kernel
> source, and this provides functionality for sound,
> CD/DVD, joypads,
> memcards, etc.  I've started reversing this (mostly
> just RPC calls back to
> the IOP), but I haven't made a whole lot of
> progress.
> 
> My main goal is to get a fully open-sourced version
> of Linux that's
> compatible with all PS2's.
> 
> M. R.
> 

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