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[ps2devman]

That's the next step, and it's now technically possible (if fw<=3.41).
Stay tuned.
(with RSX full access!)

[ouasse]

please provide more information. Is it enabled with psjailbreak ? what is the procedure for installing a distro on the hdd ?

[liberostelios]

Could you please say more about this. Is RSX full access possible on fat models, too? What about linux on fw>3.21 on fat devices?

Thanks in advance.

[bru]

Great to hear that ;)

[speedxl]

Excellent news, i hope its possible on the fat too (with full rsx access)

Thank you for all that made this a reality.

[ps2devman]

The exploit behind jailbreak dongles is being analyzed and close to be fully understood.

Best scenario case :
- A programmable (empty) USB dongle appears on the market.
Can't be considered illegal or even hacking related since it's sold empty, without any code inside. Scene sites, beside that, publish code to put inside in order to create a GameOS patch applier through usb .

The exploit takes advantage of some unsecured usb management at boot time (heap overflow) in order to inject ppc code into PS3 memory and execute it. From there, GameOS changes can be done.

For now the known exploit works on all PS3's (all models) if they have exactly fw 3.41. But there is no reason to not have, in the future, adapted code for earlier fw versions (so you can keep OtherOS as well).

Once unsigned code is running under GameOS everything is possible.

So this thread is just to warn you that you should keep fw<=3.41 for a while...

Update :
Google "PSGroove" for compiled code and see source code here : http://github.com/psgroove/psgroove

Update :
More details about a possible Linux kernel running under GameOS at the end of this page :
http://ps3wiki.lan.st/index.php?title=PSJailbreak_Exploit_Reverse_Engineering

[ldesnogu]

[yoshi314]

this stuff is supposed to work regardless of firmware, to enable service mode.

so i think it's either on some ROM, or on a chip that's not flashed at all during firmware update, because it's supposed to work when all else fails.

it doesn't mean it cannot start being flashed with future fw updates, though.

[ps2devman]

hard to say...
I heard that standard firmware update could trigger afterwards a blue ray driver firmware update. So it could also trigger firmware update of other mother board components...
Either Sony thought to have this ability for future or they never thought about it (I seriously doubt about it).
So the best bet is that it will be blocked in fw>3.41
The fact that the exploit has been nicely explained means cheap homebrew/linux solution for all of us but also means Sony will be able to release the blocking firmware update in the coming days for sure.

(Note that the decision of other os removal definitely lets devs loose about releasing free and explained exploits. Not removing other os would not have prevented ps3jailbreak to appear, probably, but devs thanking Sony for other os feature would not have joined the global hacking effort. So the other os removal has just made Sony situation even more painful, and impossible to resolve at planetary scale, since parts are cheap and easy to assemble, with the appropriate published knowledge)

[yoshi314]

[Frek]

[ps2devman]

I'm not very interested into touching either the ps3 firmware or its hard disk contents (so I won't install any 'package'). It would be less risky to try to download some code from ethernet and execute it from a on-the-fly patched lv2 kernel I think.
My main interest is homebrew able to use full power of RSX, including dynamic horizontal resolution changes (like in WipEout HD) and the optional stereoscopic 3D effects (I'm now equipped with that too).

As a reminder avoid fw>3.41 if you are interested in homebrew on ps3 slim units (or any other model of course), until psgroove team says otherwise.

For me it is obvious that in order to have homebrew on ps3 slim and blue-ray 3D support at the same time, two ps3's will be necessary. I'm afraid.

Safer legal way would be to dig a bit more into how to unlock full RSX power (ztile, zcomp) on ps3 fat with fw 2.01 (keys to decrypt fw are known now)

[ldesnogu]

[Rex_VF5]

It's already way further - see http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/ He even mentions RSX: