btw today is libreboot day. first release ever was on 12 december 2013
today is 12 december 2024. therefore, today is libreboot's 11th birthday!
it's the free/opensource bios replacement that i maintain, based on coreboot.
It's also dinosaur day!
And the 30th anniversary of the playstation too
@gwennelsonuk well. libreboot has playstation support. now we just have to somehow do something dinosaur related?
@libreleah wait what
I read that and thought "surely you mean the PS4 and PS5, maybe the PS3 cos we have the firmware signing keys".
But the PSX?
That's crazy but really cool - kinda silly if you would then use it to run only proprietary games though.
@gwennelsonuk well there is PsNee, which is an opensource modchip firmware that runs on arduino.
i suppose you could theoretically reduce a lot of that complexity by rewriting it for rp2040 or something.
there's picostation, which is opensource firmware running on an rp2040. does optical disc emulation on the real console, letting you boot from sd card.
finally, there is https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK open source devkit
modchip still ideal to defeat the mechanon wobble check; can disable from bios