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

[John T. <jth...@ha...>]

Are you outside of Japan? Do you have a kit?

I remember at Comdex they said something about it doing something outrageous
like 4 gigaflops. does anyone remember that? I digress...

Have you guys looked into Trinux? I have heard of it getting ported to PALM
OS running in RAM. I do not know as much about PS2 as most of you but I do
think I have valuable skills to bring to the table.

John Thornton  -  jth...@ha...
Editor in Chief
Hackers Digest -  www.hackersdigest.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tori Hana" <tor...@ya...>
To: "M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...>; "John Thornton"
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Cc: "hw...@sy..." <h.w...@sy...>;
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Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Who is running this show?


> 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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