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 == Running Linux on the Playstation 2 ==
-At the moment the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. It is a heavily patched 2.4.17 linux-mips kernel. Patches were done by Montavista.
+At the moment (May 2010) the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. It is a heavily patched 2.4.17 linux-mips kernel. Patches were done by Montavista.
 The reason why newer kernel versions aren't available is because the Playstation 2 toolchain is too old to build newer kernels (GCC 2.95.2 and Binutils 2.9). Some people at PS2Dev have ported GCC 3.2.2 and Binutils 2.14 to the Playstation 2, but isn't developed to run Linux (only static ELF's).

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 == Running Linux on the Playstation 2 ==
-At the moment, the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. It is a heavily patched 2.4.17 mips kernel. Patches were done by Montavista.
+At the moment the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. It is a heavily patched 2.4.17 linux-mips kernel. Patches were done by Montavista.
 The reason why newer kernel versions aren't available is because the Playstation 2 toolchain is too old to build newer kernels (GCC 2.95.2 and Binutils 2.9). Some people at PS2Dev have ported GCC 3.2.2 and Binutils 2.14 to the Playstation 2, but isn't developed to run Linux (only static ELF's).

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 * 2 USB 1.0 Ports connected to an OHCI controller
 * 1 i.Link ( IEEE 1394 Firewire ) port (it is not possible to access the Firewire port from Linux)
-* New slim model has built-in ethernet and an infrared receiver, but is not able to store a harddisk
+* New slim model has built-in ethernet and an infrared receiver (uses the same IR codes as older Sony DVD players), but is not able to store a harddisk
 == Running Linux on the Playstation 2 ==

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	* Toshiba 300MHz [[R5900]] [[Instruction_Set_Architecture#MIPS_IV\|MIPS IV]] core, FPU, 16 KB 2-way set-associative I-CACHE and an 8 KB 2-way set-associative D-CACHE, along with a 16 KB data scratchpad RAM; set of 128-bit multimedia extensions		* Toshiba 300MHz [[R5900]] [[Instruction_Set_Architecture#MIPS_IV\|MIPS IV]] core, FPU, 16 KB 2-way set-associative I-CACHE and an 8 KB 2-way set-associative D-CACHE, along with a 16 KB data scratchpad RAM; set of 128-bit multimedia extensions
	* 128bit Emotion Engine: two 128-bit VLIW vector units: VU0, VU1; 10 DMA channels; MPEG decoder		* 128bit Emotion Engine: two 128-bit VLIW vector units: VU0, VU1; 10 DMA channels; MPEG decoder

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 On the PS2 Linux does not run on the bare hardware but on an abstraction layer called RTE (Run Time Environment). The RTE was partly reimplemented as open source. The open source variant is called TGE (The Great Experiment).
-The open source bootloader [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelloader/ Kernelloader] loads the required RTE/TGE modules before starting the Linux kernel. For 2.6 kernels it may also be possible to append the required RTE/TGE modules directly to the kernel image. On Kernelloader's project page there are some patches available for Linux 2.4.17mvl21 improving Linux compatibility especially with the newer slim PS2 models.
+The open source bootloader [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelloader/ Kernelloader] loads the required RTE/TGE modules before starting the Linux kernel. For 2.6 kernels it could also be possible to append the required RTE/TGE modules directly to the kernel image instead. On Kernelloader's project page there are some patches available for Linux 2.4.17mvl21 improving Linux compatibility especially with the newer slim PS2 models.
 == External links ==

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 * [http://playstation2-linux.com/blackrhino/ BlackRhino GNU/Linux] is a Debian-based distributive
 * http://mitglied.lycos.de/ps2dev/tutorial/howtoinstalllinux.html How to install Linux without Sony's official Linux Kit
 * Wikipedia page on [[Wikipedia:PlayStation_2|Playstation 2]]

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 * 2 USB 1.0 Ports connected to an OHCI controller
 * 1 i.Link ( IEEE 1394 Firewire ) port (it is not possible to access the Firewire port from Linux)
-* New slim model has built-in ethernet, but is not able to store a harddisk
+* New slim model has built-in ethernet and an infrared receiver, but is not able to store a harddisk
 == Running Linux on the Playstation 2 ==
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 * http://playstation2-linux.com/download/p2lsd/p2lkit-handbook.html Playstation 2 Linux Kit handbook
 * http://netbsd.org/Ports/playstation2/ NetBSD/playstation2
 * http://ps2dev.org/ Playstation2 homebrew development
 * http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/PlayStation_BB_Navigator.html Linux 2.4.17 kernel for the Playstation 2
-* [http://blackrhino.xrhino.com/ BlackRhino GNU/Linux] is a Debian-based distributive
+* [http://playstation2-linux.com/blackrhino/ BlackRhino GNU/Linux] is a Debian-based distributive
 * http://mitglied.lycos.de/ps2dev/tutorial/howtoinstalllinux.html How to install Linux without Sony's official Linux Kit
 * Wikipedia page on [[Wikipedia:PlayStation_2|Playstation 2]]

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 == Running Linux on the Playstation 2 ==
-At the moment, the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. The reason why newer kernel versions aren't available is because the Playstation 2 toolchain is too old to build newer kernels (GCC 2.95.2 and Binutils 2.9). Some people at PS2Dev have ported GCC 3.2.2 and Binutils 2.14 to the Playstation 2, but isn't developed to run Linux (only static ELF's).
+At the moment, the newest Linux kernel version for the Playstation 2 is 2.4.17mvl21, which can be downloaded from the Sony website. It is a heavily patched 2.4.17 mips kernel. Patches were done by Montavista.
 == Bootloader ==