Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Some answers on digest #38 and #39

[Michael R. <mriches@u.washington.edu>]

I for one was not fooled, and I did not need you to insult him to avoid it.

		-Mike Riches
		 mriches@u.washington.edu
		 http://students.washington.edu/mriches

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, M. R. Brown wrote:

> * Guido A. Paliot jr. <gu...@pa...> on Tue, Jan 08, 2002:
>
> >
> > My guess is that the runix guys have great knowledge about the
> > PS1 boot process from their PS1-linux efforts and use the PS1-CD format as
> > a kind of bootloader for the PS2 kernel. An interesting thing is that you
> > see _all_ kernel messages on the tv, so i think that output has nothing to
> > do with the kernel itself, but is feature of the "bootloader (?)".
> > Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the very first kernel messages
> > (bogomips etc).
> >
>
> Are you such a moron that you do not understand what we've been trying to
> tell you?  This is not a PS2 native kernel.  It does no special bootloader
> magic.  If you actually think this runs on the Emotion Engine, after
> booting like a normal PSX game, after being told that runix.ru had
> developed a PSX (not PS2) kernel months ago, then all hope for you is lost.
>
> Kernel messages?  Ever heard of a framebuffer console?  It's a mystical
> magical device supported in Linux that allows you to use non-VGA devices as
> native Linux consoles.  Now, do you think this could be supported in the
> kernel runix.ru developed for the PSX?  And that it's actually possible
> that the framebuffer console is being used to output kernel boot messages?
>
> Methinks you need to actually understand how the Linux boot process works,
> and then read all those nifty messages whizzing across your screen.
>
> Folks, this isn't a PS2 kernel.  Don't let this guy and runix.ru confuse
> you.
>
> M. R.
>