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

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

Is it working in english. Do you have a link where I can order it? You did
not visit japan did you? :)

John Thornton  -  jth...@ha...
Editor in Chief
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tori Hana" <tor...@ya...>
To: "John Thornton" <jth...@ha...>; "M. R. Brown"
<mr...@0x...>
Cc: "hw...@sy..." <h.w...@sy...>;
<ps2...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Who is running this show?


> 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
> > Hackers Digest -  www.hackersdigest.com
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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