From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Scott Tillman <tillman@viewcast.com>
Cc: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Garet Cammer <arcolin@arcoide.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:52:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020620005259.V29373@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CBELJEJGBEIGHCIMEDHNCEPBCIAA.tillman@viewcast.com>; from tillman@viewcast.com on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:43:57PM -0400
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:43:57PM -0400, Scott Tillman wrote:
> I'm working with a group of people in an effort to get Linux running on the
> XBox. The XBox uses a set of security PIO commands to restrict access to
> the IDE drive, requiring a 32 byte password to be delivered before sector
> access is allowed.
>
> Another comment/question (related to XBox support):
> As part of this effort the xbox-linux team has coded support for the XBox's
> proprietary partitioning and it's new filesystem. This code (and any
> further kernel support code) has been developed for the 2.4.18 kernel, and
> we have no desire to port it to 2.5.x unless there is some hope of it's
> adoption. Could I get an official decision on whether this code might be
> adopted if made available to the 2.5.x kernel?
I wonder about the legality of including such a port in the mainline kernel.
The IDE restriction sounds like it definitly comes under the
'circumventing an access control' clause of the DMCA.
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <004701c216cf$efd1ca60$8201a8c0@arcoi0s17j2t0x>
2002-06-18 14:38 ` Need IDE Taskfile Access Martin Dalecki
2002-06-18 16:22 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-06-18 19:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-19 7:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-19 22:43 ` Scott Tillman
2002-06-19 22:52 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-20 16:36 ` Scott Tillman
2002-06-20 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-21 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-21 23:09 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-06-21 23:45 ` Alan Cox
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