Here:
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/h ... eohot.html
Could this lead to a more supportive version of Linux on the PS3? Like full access? Meaning...better emulators and applications?!?
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CoBrA2168 wrote:Here:
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/h ... eohot.html
Could this lead to a more supportive version of Linux on the PS3? Like full access? Meaning...better emulators and applications?!?
ppietro wrote:CoBrA2168 wrote:Here:
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/h ... eohot.html
Could this lead to a more supportive version of Linux on the PS3? Like full access? Meaning...better emulators and applications?!?
It's way too early to tell, I think. All I can see is that he's bypassed the hypervisor and is talking on one of the inner busses via a hardware FPGA solution. Unless there's a way to translate that into real world access - for ordinary folks - that's more academic than useful, IMHO.
I'm not saying that it's not cool, mind you. I'm taking a "wait and see" attitude towards this - that's all.
Cheers,
Paul
Efaustus9 wrote:So do you think this has anything to do with the removal of other os.
Efaustus9 wrote:So do you think this has anything to do with the removal of other os. While geohot has had a ps3 for a year and a half he only started his efforts after the removal of other os. So about two years after this conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtDTNnEvlf8 the ps3 has been supposedly compromised.
ppietro wrote:Another good question about this hardware/software hack is - "Which hardware did he hack?" If he hacked the phat, will the same trick work on the revised slim motherboard? Or - is the hack part of the OtherOS support itself? If so, did removal of OtherOS remove his attack vector?
Can anyone tell from the exploded photo of the PS3 he posted?
Cheers,
Paul
oeboeroe wrote:what is rambus... some stange pattent somewhere.. did sony use that ?
ppietro wrote:Can anyone tell from the exploded photo of the PS3 he posted?
oeboeroe wrote:slim or fat it's all about the code now..
I can't really see there to be much difference between 3.15 slim or fat.. just less software features..
ppietro wrote:oeboeroe wrote:slim or fat it's all about the code now..
I can't really see there to be much difference between 3.15 slim or fat.. just less software features..
Not really. According to Sony, the slim has a different motherboard, and a different internal firmware layout. They simplified the design quite a bit. They claimed that the time it would take to port the OtherOS hypervisor layer to the new architecture wasn't worth the effort.
ppietro wrote:Don't forget - the games work under a hypervisor layer too. Changes in hardware system architecture would still work via hypervisor abstraction.
That isn't to say they're not similar - but it might be enough where a hack that works on one console won't work on the other without significant modification.
ppietro wrote:Until Geohot posts his method we won't know for sure - his hack may or may not depend on a specific architecture spot in the phat.
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ppietro wrote:
Another good question about this hardware/software hack is - "Which hardware did he hack?"
sirgrinalot wrote:All things aside, the function names he "discoverd" have been well known for almost 2 years see here: http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:hypervisor
And even if anything comes of this, every ps3 has a unique key, and any code not signed by sony will not run on your console unless you supposedly do all the steps he is doing. Which judging from all his extra hardware and spewn ps3 guts is something the average joe wouldn't attempt...
Finally if sony sees a modified system software on your console they will likely ban you from being able to do anything online.
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