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

[Brian Hechinger]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> 
> The PS2 plays PS1 games quite well.  There are some options in the "PS1
> Driver" to add some graphics enhancement to the PS1 games.

granted i've only ever dropped Syphon Filter 3 (a complete dissapointment) into
my PS2, so i haven't looked into it too hard, is there somewhere that this
needs to be turned on?  it looked very much like it would have on a PS1 from
what i can tell.

> Supposedly, the drivers in the linux kernel give you access to pretty much
> everything in the PS2.  The main processor (of course), the two vector
> engines, the "Emotion Engine", USB, the big hairy graphics pipeline via
> OpenGL and Mesa, and both the digital and analogue audio outputs.

Q3A anyone?  on a 17' wide projector?  oh, that would be *SICK*

> 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).

is this just a driver issue?  would it be possible to add support for this
stuff?  hmmmmm.

> I'm looking forward to porting MAME to it and playing all the old arcade
> games on my TV system.

oh yeah baby!

-brian
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