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PS3 finally properly hacked?
- pmichaud 17y agoForgive my ignorance, but what practical purpose does this serve? Is it just to be able to use a PS3 for something else like a render farm, or does it affect how games can be played?
- cmars232 17y agoIt probably means linux & homebrew games (games that can be developed without the often expensive and exclusive commercial, licensed SDKs required to develop for consoles) are coming soon for PS3. Maybe a port of Boxee (like XBMC for original Xbox) as well, unless Sony is wise enough to officially partner with Boxee... Edit: yes, there is currently "linux" for ps3 but AFAIK it has limited access to HW, done on purpose by Sony. Running a true native linux would unlock the full capability of the hardware to the OS.
- borism 17y agoUnless you control hypervisor you can't see what games are doing in their virtual machines. Once you do - you can, and that means you can start cracking their anti-piracy code etc.
- nzmsv 17y agoSony advertised Linux support on the older PS3 (the new slim model removed this feature). But even then there was no access to the GPU (Sony was afraid people would make homebrew games). This made is impossible to get even things like video playback working acceptably. With the hypervisor out of the picture, a real, uncrippled Linux system is possible on the PS3.
- nzmsv 17y agoOriginal post: http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/hello-hypervisor-im-geohot.html http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/hello-hypervisor-im-ge...
- kierank 17y agoThe incentive to hack it was much less since Linux was mostly available anyway.
- rwmj 17y agoExcellent news, if true I might buy one.
- ippisl 17y agoThis could make big screen HD video-conferencing\telepresence available for cheap in the living room.
- nobosh 17y agoTime will tell.