Hello, I've been in and out of the irc chat and across the wiki as well. logos are cool, and I'm not picky, but I gravitate towards orange if anyone wants easy votes :D
The information about hypervisor [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor ]technology is very interesting a read, and I was surprised to learn it was first used in the 1960's on an older IBM mainframe that also wore the numbers 360..... [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM/360 ] I have a decommissioned IBM powerpc with aix [ 5.1 i think ] that i have been unable to utilize and am willing to do anything on if some one would lead me thru it [ only access is serial into it, i crippled its net after it flooded its old owners with error tickets.... ]. maybe install Xen , Trango , or similar software to get the idea of how hypervisors operate and function. It all seems closely related to virtualization which makes since, considering xbox emulation would need to be secure, games need to be separate, and x360 dash in background running all the while. these may all be separate virtual machines which the vernal can switch control between. this may also be an obstacle , even if we can cause media player, xbox emu, or dash to crash, we may need to do considerable work to escalate out of the virtual abstraction the kernel set that environment up with. the x360 emulation engine may need to do all x86 instruction conversion, which probably isn't terribly hard considering it's raw power, but may tend to be slightly dangerous and warrant levels of abstraction from the x360's native workings. also, there are open source projects to run powerpc code on x86, and you can run apple osx and darwin in it on osx. this may also be useful. In regards to questions of whether x360 uses caching / page file [ on wiki ] . i believe this cannot be assumed since the core model ships with out a hard disk. and the independent developers.doc also instructs coders to make there projects fit entirely in the 512mb on board ram, and assume no paging is available. I have a friend with an x360 and hdd, and if i can find a machine with sata and a bunch of free GB, i would love to try and dd an image of off it. i am currently doing something similar to an oem PlayStation 2 image, trying to read it sector by sector, so I'm already geared in a meticulous mindset. I look forward to working with you all and while i don't have access to 360 or any sata hardware, I would still like to offer any help i may find myself possessing. I also apologize for inconsistent punctuation and such. it's tricky enough trying to keep these thoughts coherent, so they may read slightly disjointed. Also, I agree the mailing list should strip out html, and people should adhere to the Usenet quoting etiquette. makes getting to the content much easier. ~~~~~PidGin128 [ 2005-11-28 | 21:40 GMT-5 ] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Free60-devel mailing list Free60-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/free60-devel
