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

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

I am in US.  I ordered PS2 Linux in japan and
delivered to US.

--- John Thornton <jth...@ha...> wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tori Hana" <tor...@ya...>
> To: "M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...>; "John
> Thornton"
> <jth...@ha...>
> Cc: "hw...@sy..." <h.w...@sy...>;
> <ps2...@li...>
> 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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