[tech] A project idea...

[Leighton Haynes]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:44:58PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:18:14PM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> > Oh, and just because I'm sick of reiterating it again and again. 
> > No, I don't think Linux on PS2 is a good idea. It's a bad idea. 
> > There are better solutions than crippling a really lovely architecture
> > with a bloated OS>
> 
> Ok but how do you get into the swing of things without a nice
> comfortable libc to use? :-) Or does the devkit give you the stuff to
> bootstrap the platform and get you into some defined state?

Well, theres the official stuff, which I'm not allowed to talk about
on pain of Sony's goons coming at me with baseball bats. But theres 
also the homebrew stuff. Currently theres a cdimage which you
boot on the PS2, this talks to a windows or linux box via a PL2301
USB cable. There are libs around in various states of disrepair - I think
theres most of a libc, a pad control lib, and various other bits and pieces.
The actual hardware is reasonably documented, kinda. The Linux kit comes
with PDFs of all the hardware manuals (which, you can imagine makes them
fairly easily obtainable). 

Leighton...

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