Re: I need a gc-linux hardware shopping list

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 20:27, Dana Adkins wrote:
> What hardware do I need to get started with gc-linux?  I have all of the 
> computer (Linux/WinXP) and network equipment.  I am mostly concerned 
> with the GameCube specific stuff.  Here is a list of what I think I 
> need.  What is missing / not needed.
> 1.) GameCube system
> 2.) network adaptor
> 3.) PSO game
> 3.) PSOloader software (is this open source?)

You need all of this.  PSOLoad is free-as-in-beer, but not Open Source. 
It'd be neat to figure out what it was doing and make an Open Source
equivalent, because I'd like to drive everything from the same Linux box
that's hosting the filesystem.

> Also, what documentation exists?  I have the easy stuff like PowerPC 
> Arch Manual (Green book), O'Reilly everything Linux, etc.  I am looking 
> for information on the GC arch and maybe some speculation on what flavor 
> PowerPC that the Gekko is closest to.  I have some low level development 
> experience on Mot PPC 750 and IBM 750FX.  Any comments???

It's basically identical, I think.  Have you read groepaz's doc? 
http://www.gc-linux.org/down/yet_another_gamecube_doc.pdf.tar.gz

Adam

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