Hello, thanks for this detailed reply ,-] I carried together some more information, which might be useful to other people, as well. Eduard Bloch wrote: > > At LinuxTag 2001 in Stuttgart, Germany, there was a Sony PlayStation 2 > > with Debian Linux shown at the Debian booth. > > Unfortunately, I was at the LinuxTag, but not the booth. > Oliver M. Bolzer presented it, but he had to leave on ?Friday? because of > the university lessons. It was not the usuall PS2 which can be bought in > Europe, but a newer (?still unreleased?) version, which only beta > testers received. It don't have FireWire, but a harddisk instead. Ohhh, that's interesting! Do You have any information on how to get into this beta-test program ?! > And it was not a Debian system presented there, but a product of Sony, a > strange distribution based on RedHat and their own extensions. IMHO it > should not be too complicated to port Debian to it when the basic Debian > development apps are ported and an autobuilder can be setup. OK, I found a page with a screenshot on it ,-] (* see doc at the end for link *) > The arhitecture: it is not SuperH, it is a variant of mipsel, called > mipsEEl or so (IIRC with EE for Emotion Engine). Oliver talked with a > guy which was more familiar with kernel development and the consens was, > it is mostly mipsel compatible except of two instructions missing in the > instruction set of this CPU. This instructions may be emulated in the > kernel, so may be possible to get the existing mipsel software running > on the Playstation 2 (second release). Yes, I got the instruction set of the CPU; as well as a cross-compiler and linker. I carried together some more information, which might be useful to other people, as well. If You find any bugs, or would like to add information to it or have comments/flames I'd happily integrate them (well, except the flames ,-]). Greetings, raY -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Keller Mail: Keller@hlrs.de Allmandring 30 WWW: http://www.hlrs.de/people/keller 70550 Stuttgart Tel. 0711 / 685 5858
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