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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Scott Tillman <tillman@viewcast.com>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:43:57PM -0400, Scott Tillman wrote:
 > I'm working with a group of people in an effort to get Linux running on the
 > XBox.  The XBox uses a set of security PIO commands to restrict access to
 > the IDE drive, requiring a 32 byte password to be delivered before sector
 > access is allowed.
 > 
 > Another comment/question (related to XBox support):
 > As part of this effort the xbox-linux team has coded support for the XBox's
 > proprietary partitioning and it's new filesystem.  This code (and any
 > further kernel support code) has been developed for the 2.4.18 kernel, and
 > we have no desire to port it to 2.5.x unless there is some hope of it's
 > adoption.  Could I get an official decision on whether this code might be
 > adopted if made available to the 2.5.x kernel?

I wonder about the legality of including such a port in the mainline kernel.
The IDE restriction sounds like it definitly comes under the
'circumventing an access control' clause of the DMCA.

        Dave

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