PSP (Play Station Portable) kernal wantedForum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: PSP (Play Station Portable) kernal wanted started by: WhiteWiz Posted by WhiteWiz on Mar. 27 2005,17:40
DSL would be an ideal choise to run on a PSP as it would easily fit on a mem stick pro. Then you could have a working portable computer for $250us (Sony is taking a loss on these puppies) with WiFi. Would require the keyboard add-on that is already available.
Posted by Fordi on Mar. 28 2005,06:38
Do you happen to know any system specs on the PSP? For example, what kind of processor does it run? What's its video chip, and via what kind of bus does it interface? Does anyone know the memory locations of the controller interface? How is the sound chip programmed?My guess is that these questions will be answered in the same way they were for the GBA. Through a slow user-development and hacking process. < Looking here >, we can see that this will be an exciting console to develop for, but that graphics chip is undocumented outside the Sony illuminati. There's a block diagram of how it works, but no specifications. Posted by MASON GRAND MASTER on Mar. 28 2005,15:19
HUSH - THE ILLUMINATI DOES NOT EXIST.
Posted by WhiteWiz on Mar. 31 2005,02:44
gaaah! 2 slow!< http://www.psp-linux.org/ > Posted by penguin asylum on Mar. 31 2005,03:02
Yes, but they haven't really done much yet anyway :P (that is, not much in the ways of an end result, I'm sure that they've worked hard...)
Posted by Waterns on April 01 2005,15:36
They haven't done shit! If you look at ds-linux.org (made by the same people) you will see that it took like 5 months to construct a pass through device. There is like 5 people total contributing to that project that acutally do something. Dont get me wrong: I know that those 5 people worked hard on the pass through but as for the rest of the forum board members and threads, well......As for the PSP-Linux, well that should be one of the easiest ones in the history of gaming. For one it has a eqivalent of a 300 mhz processor and about the same power of the PS2 which runs linux. Two, it already has had many major successes (the internet browsing through the wipeout hack, Sony's testing with updates, and easier to upload files to it through mem card). Three, it has some more methods that are open to the attack (wireless, mem card, UMDs). Four, in comparision the DS doesnt have that nessecary power to run something like DSL (though it would be nice). All in all I think the PSP holds the power. A little tidbit is that Nintendo plans to release a GBA 2. So apparently the DS is some new sort of console. GBA 2 promises to be good. After all, Nintendo is not going to let Sony beat them in their backyard are they? Posted by mater ordus illuminati on April 03 2005,15:35
someone should package up all the compile options for the system and create a simple multiplatform build kit with something like:< http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbootpack/ > then you could run on any platform anywhere. Posted by WhiteWiz on April 30 2005,17:26
this guys seems to be getting somewhere < http://www.wtfwasthat.com/psp/ >he figured out the PSP has a MIPS 32-bit r4000 CPU, found a compiler for it and has already compiled something. How hard would it be to compile the DSLinux kernal on this compiler? I realize i've probubly over-simplified this but i;m in a hurry to see something come to fruition. |