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

[James Sharp]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> 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.

You have to turn it on from the system set up screen. I don't remember
exactly where its at.  It doesn't make all that much of a difference in
visual looks, but the faster CD drive makes for faster loading...and the
faster CPU keeps the system from bogging down on heavy graphics usage.

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

Probably not.  Linux isn't actually running on the PS2 hardware.  You have
to boot something akin to IBM VM first, then Linux runs on top of that.
So if they don't put the hooks for the other hardware in the VM, you aint
never gonna get to it unless you write your own VM.