From: Ed Schouten <edschouten@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [Patch] i386: Xbox support
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:46:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc54396f04092801465d278b73@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415915F0.2000803@yahoo.com.au>
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:42:40 +1000, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Well, I ask because there is probably quite a large number of embedded type
> devices devices that you could "just add a small patch for" to get it working.
>
> The added fact that you have to "hack" the hardware (I think?) to even get
> it to run Linux makes it probably a bit more questionable (it is great that
> we can run on xbox, but maybe not too harmful to keep it as an external patch).
Yes, you have multiple options to get Linux on it (flash the BIOS with
cromwell, grub-based bootloader, alter some of its current software,
etc).
The reason why the Xbox-Linux folks and I think it should belong in
the main tree is adoption. Xbox Linux has been around since 2001 if I
remember correctly and there are almost no distributions around that
really support the Xbox. The people at Debian for example will only
add Xbox support if it is available in the main tree.
Yours,
--
Ed Schouten <edschouten@gmail.com>
Website: http://g-rave.nl/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 18:02 [Patch] i386: Xbox support Ed Schouten
2004-09-28 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28 2:35 ` Will Dyson
2004-09-28 4:46 ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28 7:42 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28 8:46 ` Ed Schouten [this message]
2004-09-29 18:21 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-29 22:16 ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28 9:06 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-28 9:18 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28 10:11 ` Switch back to Real mode and then boot strap Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 10:21 ` Alex Riesen
2004-09-28 10:46 ` Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 10:57 ` Alex Riesen
2004-09-28 21:26 ` Aboo Valappil
2004-09-28 21:45 ` [Patch] i386: Xbox support Rahul Karnik
2004-09-28 22:06 ` Ed Schouten
2004-09-28 10:11 ` David Weinehall
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