From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 8 1:36:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC3E37B404 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p10-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.139]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id SAA26301; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:35:02 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A59893C.5D4FD5D3@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:32:44 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mohan Khurana Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xbox References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mohan Khurana wrote: > > 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 heard that too, and I heard that it will use DVD protection to ensure non-certified applications won't run. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message