Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:49:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Mohan Khurana <mkhurana@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xbox Message-ID: <200101080449.f084nes41261@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:37:35 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101071731250.3620-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101071731250.3620-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu>
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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101071731250.3620-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu> Mohan Khurana writes: : Well, this is going to seem like a rather strange question. I understand : that Xbox is simply IA-32, however I have heard that the Xbox has a : special ROM that boots Windows CE, to ensure that people do not purchase : the Xbox for the sole reason of running FreeBSD or any other operating : system on it. Does anyone know enough about Xbox internals to verify that : FreeBSD will or will not be able to run on Xbox without any type of : hardware modification? I know that NetBSD/hpcmips uses Windows CE as a boot loader. It will be harder on the Xbox, since Windows CE 3.0 breaks many of the interfaces that pbsdboot.exe used. Don't know if that was on purpose, or if it was accidental to cleaning up the horrible protection mechanisms that were in place before. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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