Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:40:14 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/5] xbox: add 'CONFIG_X86_XBOX' to kernel configuration | From | "Ed Schouten" <> |
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Hello Matt,
On Sat, October 9, 2004 10:15 pm, Matt Heler said: > Why can't theese patches be maintained outside the kernel tree , as it is > now ? > > I'm strongly against this because the X-Box is a gaming platform and last > I heard ( and I could be wrong here ) is that you had to hack your X-Box in > order to load any other os then the one supplied with it. I just don't see > a justified reason why theese patches should be included into the kernel.
It is true that you have to make some modifications to your Xbox, for example: flashing the BIOS with Cromwell (BIOS with a Linux loader).
The main reason why it should be merged (in my opinion) is that a lot of Linux distro's reject Xbox-Linux because it's not in the mainline sourcetree (Debian for example, they only want vanilla platforms).
These patches are only 102 lines together, which is a small amount to support a new platform.
Yours, -- Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl> Website: http://g-rave.nl/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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