Re: Xbox360 plans?

Xbox-Linux wrote:

> What we know for sure is that we'll face a ppc64 machine, and that linux 
> is already running on such processors. We also know it'll have an ATI 
> GPU, so I guess open source DRI driver will let us play with hardware 

I think the open source ATI stuff will only work with very
old ATI hardware: like the mach64 and radeon9200 boards.

So I fear that linux on xbox360 will probably go down like
linux on xbox1 : 2D only :-( (if at all)

Also, if Microsoft will again use DRM with signed binaries,
and if they get it right this time, we may very well have to
prepare for an un-hackable xbox360.

There is an excellent book on how xbox1 was cracked, called
"Hacking the XBOX" by Andrew "bunnie" Huang.
http://hackingthexbox.com/

It's an excellent read, and when you read it, you will see that only
due to a chain of freak occurances, and mistakes by micro$oft, it was
hacked. (And it took ofcourse an MIT student with an IQ of 200).

It would be an awesome linux machine though... although I now understand
that the claimed 1 TFlop/s was a hyped up marketing ploy, never
achievable in real world scenarios.

   bram

> acceleration. Also, as alpha devkits are PowerMacintoshes, chances are 
> the xbox360 will have a modified OpenFirmware bios, and that we could 
> use OF related hacks to get some entry points on the xbox360 hardware.
> 
> Another point is backward compatibility, first efforts will certainly be 
> done to replace the software emulated xbox 1 bios by a cromwell like rom 
> image. It could be a good start as it'll let us use the machine for 
> something usefull until we find how to run a native linux on it ;)
> 
> BTW, looking for bugs in games may not be the best way to go this time 
> as Microsoft will certainly pay attention on editor's QA procedures, 
> avoiding us to get through it too easilly. So I think my first attempts 
> will be related to the x86 emulator. Making it crash thanks to our 
> current knoweldge on the first xbox could let us run some arbitrary code 
> on the underlaying OS.
> 
> Now let's wait for our brand new toys :D
> 
>> Michael Lubker
>> Software Lead
>> 3D Input Project
>> http://sf.net/projects/threed-input
>>
>>
> Jérôme
> 
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