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[roel]

[url]http://www.mvista.com/products/2.6.html[/url]

Has anybody checked out the linux version of mvista, they say it's compatible with mips?

roel

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There is also www.linux-mips.org.

Montavista very likely incorporates the mainstream MIPS on Linux effort and likely (hopefully) contributes back. In any event, nearly all PS2 support on Linux MIPS was acquired from Sony's support of PS2Linux.

If you are interested in Linux on PS2, check out www.playstation2-linux.com.

There are no ways to boot Linux on the PS2 outside of the Linux Kit RTE disc.

There have been initial efforts to overcome that, but honestly, in PS2DEV, there is not a whole lot of interest in Linux. Linux hasn't been all that necessary to do what most people want to do with the minimal hardware environment that exists on the PS2.

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Montavista ported the 2.4 kernel to the PS2. This kernel is used in Sony's Broadband Navigator.
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[roel]

yep, but on the link I provided they are talking about 2.6 on mips?
Maybe I do misinterpret what's written over there.

roel

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MIPS yes, in the kernel no doubt, for specific MIPS cpu's. However, if there is nothing said specifically about PS2 or PSP then there is nothing to see there, move along.

The thing to keep in mind - there are hundreds of flavors of MIPS cpus out there, and dozens of companies that make MIPS CPU's for use primarily in embedded systems.

It is never enough that there is so-called "MIPS" support in the kernel. You need to know that a specific make/model MIPS CPU is supported in the kernel, and then for any specific product that one CPU is used in, that device drivers compatibile with whats on that product also exists in the kernel source tree.

No public knowledge exists of the PSP devices, and Sony custom made that flavor of the MIPS CPU on the PSP. All we know is that it is based on MIPS4k MIPS32 ISA.

Thats why we chuckle at the folx over at psp-linux.org. :)