Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 22:54 UTC, submitted by Jari
The Xbox-Linux team have got to work on trying to port Linux to the Xbox 360, in a project named 'Free 60'. The Free60 Project aims to port open source operating systems like GNU/Linux and Darwin to the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console. Here is some interesting documentation already from their website.
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- The flash is encrypted with a per-box key
- The key is stored inside the CPU
- The boot ROM is stored inside the CPU
- Also inside the CPU is a hypervisor that verifies the running state of the kernel, making sure there is no modification (RAM checksums), else the Xbox360 panics and blows up!
They're really out to prevent mod-chips this time around. Moving the boot ROM inside the CPU and protecting it with a key also inside the CPU pretty much kills nearly all mod-chips. Most mod-chips intercept instruction fetches from the boot ROM and replace the original code with their own. With the boot ROM inside the CPU, you can't intercept those instruction fetches.