Re: Re: LBA48 partitioning scheme

>> Personally, my feelings are that xbox-linux should not go out of 
>> its way to  support 'illegal' stuff on the xbox - and a 
> partition table designed for use 
>> with an illegal bios, and ONLY with an illegal bios (e.g. evox, 
>> xecuter bioses) falls into that category.

The partition table (along with LBA48 patches) are NOT 'illegal'.  It works on STANDARD, LEGAL, *unhacked* Xbox BIOS's.

I first developed the patches by extracting *my* Original Xbox ROM image from my Xbox.  That's a LEGAL BIOS - as long as I don't distribute it.

I never created a 'patched' BIOS/distributed it - THAT would be an illegal BIOS (the distibuted one).  Patching your *own* BIOS is legal, as far as I know (I am not a lawyer...).

I distributed code + batch files that will apply the patches to another BIOS.  That distribution is 100% legal.  I believe that running those patches on *your* legal BIOS is also legal.

Now, I realize that MOST users of LBA48/partition table are using 'illegal' BIOS's.  But, the same could probably be said for MANY Xbox-Linux users...

- Paulb






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