Linux on PS2 (was Re: [rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:

> The only things they don't give you access to are the hardware De-CSS
> engine, the audio playback part of the CD drive, and the Dolby Digital and
> 5.1 encoder hardware (but you can still get 44.1Khz PCM audio out of the
> digital audio fiber port).

Are you sure it does hardware css decoding and hardware audio
encoding?  I would have thought they do those tasks in software.  

Anyway, you can always port DeCSS, and I bet it would vectorize nicely to.
 
> I'm looking forward to porting MAME to it and playing all the old arcade
> games on my TV system.

It probably would be a fun box to hack with.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd