On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:43:57PM -0400, Scott Tillman wrote:
> I'm working with a group of people in an effort to get Linux running on the
> XBox. The XBox uses a set of security PIO commands to restrict access to
> the IDE drive, requiring a 32 byte password to be delivered before sector
> access is allowed.
>
> Another comment/question (related to XBox support):
> As part of this effort the xbox-linux team has coded support for the XBox's
> proprietary partitioning and it's new filesystem. This code (and any
> further kernel support code) has been developed for the 2.4.18 kernel, and
> we have no desire to port it to 2.5.x unless there is some hope of it's
> adoption. Could I get an official decision on whether this code might be
> adopted if made available to the 2.5.x kernel?
I wonder about the legality of including such a port in the mainline kernel.
The IDE restriction sounds like it definitly comes under the
'circumventing an access control' clause of the DMCA.
Dave
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