News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Linux for Playstation 2 by tetris11 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @02:18PM (#39168902)
It looks like it's EOL. Can they not merge their changes upstream?
Re:Linux for Playstation 2 by pjmlp on Sunday January 28, 2024 @02:35PM (#39169027)
Not at all, most of it used some blobs that were under Sony's NDA.

Note that nowadays Sony uses FreeBSD and clang for a reason.

Re:Linux for Playstation 2 by duskwuff on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:04PM (#39170795)
> It looks like it's EOL.

"EOL" would imply that it ever received any ongoing support. The impression I get is more that Sony treated this more like a game release -- once the discs went out the door, that was it.

Re:Linux for Playstation 2 by pjmlp on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:02AM (#39173554)
The community was alive during around 7 years, and there were SCEE people active in the forums on Sony's payroll, like sarahe.
Re:Linux for Playstation 2 by uyjulian on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:20PM (#39180021)
Someone did a port to a newer Linux base, and upstreaming is in progress: https://github.com/frno7/linux