psxlinux for PSX and PS One:where to download

dodger88 · 10-12-2004, 10:35 AM

I want to know, does anyone have or know where to find PSXLinux for PS1? I am not talking about PS2 Linux. I tried to download it from runix.biz, but it didn't seem to have the file. Thanks. Dodger

geeksunny · 10-22-2004, 10:45 PM

I still have the file, i found it somewhere a long time ago after lots and lots of digging. its the 2.4.0 kernel, but with the config it should work the same way if its put into the 2.4.27 kernel or something. i can upload the file to my webserver if anyone want's it.

i'm still interested on how i can put applications on a cd and make a little psx distro. i had this awesome idea a while ago of seeing on how to hook a HDD up to it through the serial port...it'd take some adapter to convert the 40pins to the 5 pins...it'd be amazing if it even worked! and then, maybe it could store ISO's on the HDD and use linux to mount them and just play from there? the swap space could upgrade the 2mb of ram to 2gb! virtual memory cards!

ahh the possibilities...

ubu_roi · 10-31-2004, 02:13 PM

The distro can be found at

http://www.stampede.org/~lethal/mips/notdocs/

I do not understand, how to boot the kernel into the thing. Has anyone done it? If so, could he explain a little?

Peter

JohnyDRipper · 11-20-2004, 07:04 AM

Does anybody know anything more already? I'm really exited to try this on my old PS! And I still have some old hard drives too so this all would be a great experiment...
I think Gentoo has a tool to make knoppix-like cdroms that you can fill yourself with the software you choose, so I'm going to spends some time on that first...

greetz,
Johny the Ripper

PS: a playstation has a SPARC cpu @ 33 Mhz so the software is going to have to be compiled to SPARC architecture.

ubu_roi · 11-20-2004, 08:24 AM

The PSX has a MIPS architecture!

PSX Linux sources can be found at: ftp://ftp.ware.ru/pub/unix/linux/kernel/

A useful howto (in italian) can be found at http://persone.softwarelibero.org/ar...ead.php?id=97. Apply an italian -> english translator to it, for example http://www.freetranslation.com/web.asp. I contacted the author of the howto to ak him some questions, here is the interisting:

Quote:

> I did not understand form the (poorly translated) text if i needed _
> the
> black
> PS or if the gray was enough. You write something about burning. Does
> it
> mean, i crosscompile the kernel, then use some tools on the binary,
> then burn
> it and just run on the (gray) PSX?

yep, correctly.. the black psx is just a plain psx with some more ram, _
a the serial cable converter and a simple SDK for games, nothing more..

but i've found that one could do really nothing :/
psx have a really low.end hardware.. i dont think one can come out with _
something useful, maybe writing directly PSX software, without an _
operating system one could do great things, but putting an OS in that _
gray box is not worth the effort (imho)

> One question: have you run the kernel on a _REAL_ PS? How does one
> give input?
> (Maybe the controller)?

i've ran the kernel, nothing else, in fact i dont know if it's really
running

i see the boot text, so something is doing, but after the boot the TV _
screen
goes black, end of the story

P.S.: I had not the time to try it out.

JohnyDRipper · 11-21-2004, 04:05 AM

Would it really be impossible to get a GUI running? I have a PS mouse (I used it to play C&C Red Alert) but no keyboard... But I think you can do a great deal with just a mouse and a controller... I think the next problem will be drivers, but since there already exists a linux distro for PS2, maybe we can use their drivers?
I don't really have much time too, but I will some day spend a lot of time to try to make this work...

ubu_roi · 11-21-2004, 04:50 AM

You do not have much hardware on a PSX.

I took a look at the PSXLinux sources (the *.ru link I've posted). They have written some serial device drivers (might by the serial port and/or the controller), a console driver which runs on top of the PSX graphical unit (there are some bitmap fonts in the source).

I've read somewhere, that in later releases, there is also a block driver for memory cards.

The PSX code does not seem to be integrated into the official kernel sources, you have to use the PSXLinux sources.

Peter

JohnyDRipper · 11-21-2004, 05:49 AM

My idea was to show powerpoint (or alike) presentations and play games like tetis or minessweeper on big screen using playstation and linux.
I guess the way it now is, they just managed to make a kernel that fits in the tiny ram. So all the ram is used by just loading the kernel... If we could use the drivers for memory cards, we could use a whole memory card for swap space, but that would give us just one MB... Maybe it is possible to load a GUI into just one megabyte, but then there would be nothing left anymore to load anything serious, right? hmmm darn 2 megs of ram... Although minessweeper or tetris don't really use a lot of memory, but a powerpoint viewer or media player would definately be out of the question I fear... IF someway we could manage to get a GUI satisfied with 1 meg that is...

JohnyDRipper · 11-22-2004, 07:52 AM

I've thought about it (and read the Italian guide - though my knowledge of Italian is very limited...) and I think that if we could hook up a standard hard drive to the serial port, we could do a lot of things. Yet this is not an easy solution I guess, but I want to spend some time on it investigating the possibility of such things... (I am looking for a purpose for a 79 MB hard drive I have for years and I couldn't really find one, so I'm not letting this opportunity slip just like that :P) We have to convert a 40 pin parallel interface to a 5 pin serial interface, right? omg... For the moment, I have no idea how one can do such things, but I'm positive that google will help... Maybe we should look for the maximum transfer speed capabilities of the serial port first? Because if it is really slow we can forget the whole idea...

I read somewhere that most SATA hard drives are not really fully SATA but just there parallel equivalent with a SATA connector on them. So maybe converting parallel interfaces is not really as hard as I think it is... Or so I hope...

dodger88 · 11-23-2004, 04:14 PM

I can not download files that big! I have AOL Dial-up. I was thinking, someone who has a faster Internet connection could download the required files and divide them into 2 MB files and e-mail them to me. WinRAR or RAR for DOS are preferred. If anyone could come up with a different way, that would be great too.

Dodger

guysoft · 03-29-2010, 07:30 PM

Hi all,
The links here are all dead, might anyone have the ISO of this distro?

Thanks

GrapefruiTgirl · 03-29-2010, 07:44 PM

I'm not familiar with this distro at all, but I wonder if this is the same idea here: http://www.epsxe.com/

??

Best of luck,

Sasha

guysoft · 03-30-2010, 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

I'm not familiar with this distro at all, but I wonder if this is the same idea here: http://www.epsxe.com/
Best of luck,
Sasha

No Sasha, It's not. For a start you need to read what it means (from wikipedia): ePSXe - enhanced PSX emulator. So its not a distro. Its a PSX emulator.

I am looking for PSXLinux, its a distro for the PSX machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSXLinux

GrapefruiTgirl · 03-30-2010, 08:35 AM

OK, well you might get better results of you create a new thread about your question, rather than depending on this 6+ year old one.

Sorry my suggestion didn't help.

Cheers,
Sasha

guysoft · 03-30-2010, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

OK, well you might get better results of you create a new thread about your question, rather than depending on this 6+ year old one.

Sorry my suggestion didn't help.

Cheers,
Sasha

Sure, no problem.
I just thought I'd post in a related exiting topic.. Did not want to upset the moderator