From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 20:50: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E6E37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f084nes41261; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:49:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101080449.f084nes41261@harmony.village.org> To: Mohan Khurana Subject: Re: Xbox Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:37:35 EST." References: Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:49:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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