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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:39:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Hi Johannes,

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 5:28 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 16:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > ps3-gelic-wireless
>
> Didn't Sony disable Linux on PS3 eventually? Though maybe someone still
> has some devices with old software.

If you didn't update the firmware, you could keep on using Linux.

And people may have found a vulnerability in more recent firmware
versions that allows them to run custom software.
I don't know, it's been +10 years ago I touched a PS3 ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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