I know the development PC's used with a Playstation Tool DTL-T10000 are ment to use Linux Red Hat 6.2. Is it possible to use other distros which is more compatable with my newer PC?
I'm using CentOS 5.2 with kernel 2.6.18-92.el5 inside VMWare and it works perfectly. As far as I know the only constraint is that the Linux running on the TOOL's PC side must be using a specific kernel, as the mrp driver used to talk to the PS2 side is only available in binary form. The kernel also has some TOOL-specific functionality included (power/shutdown-related if I remember correctly), but I don't think that is absolutely necessary.
Gentoo here we come... Being a new TOOL owner, I've been learning what I can about the unit. It's nice to hear that you are succeeding with a reasonably current distro. If RedHat 6.2 were the original development PCs (which I do question as - why is the SN systems stuff all Windows then?) but you are succeeding with a CentOS 5.2 box (for those who don't know, CentOS is an exact copy of RedHat Enterprise Linux from their source RPMs but with all RedHat Graphics ripped out, very, very solid distro) then I am definitely going to just stick to my Gentoo machine that I do PSP Linux compilation stuff on. Again, with the PSP all the SN systems stuff being windows, for PSP I have a Windows box where all the Windows tools for the PSP - be they Sony or homebrew - go. This is where I plan to install the SN systems tools for the PS2 Tool as well. Anyway, I thank you for the info that at least CentOS 5.2 (w/ a 2.6.18 kernel unless you compiled your own) works fine. Now I can get my desk in a bit more orderly - as well as which programs should be on what machine orderly, fashion. Thanks for all the great info everybody! regards, npt :thumbsup:
Playstation 2 development environment setup guide! Development Computer Any standard personal computer can be used for the compile/debug environment. The following list of specifications should serve as a guideline. The recommended environment is RedHat Linux 6.2. If another versions of Linux is to be used, make sure that it uses Libc6.
