Xenon/Xenos benchmarks

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  1. tcrews

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    They haven't even come close to cracking it just yet, so the most a porting project will be doing is twiddle their thumbs for now. :wink:
     
  3. BlueTsunami

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    I wonder how that will work out (your link will provably provide the answer :lol:, i'll check it out a little later). They will probably just utilize one core? and have the other sit idle or something. Would it require that much porthing though? Wouldn't all you need is a Linux Distro thats already ready for PPC CPUs?
     
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    can you linkify??? or direct me the right :twisted: way
     
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    You happen to know where to get it now? I would like to take a peak at it for shits-n-giggles.
     
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    Some linux freaks are already running it on 360, as I heard. Apparently, there is no big deal about transfering it on console.
     
  7. Titanio

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    This was the one I was thinking of. Been ages since I've read it!

    http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2002/ea-shader.pdf

    There are performance comparisons across the systems in the last part.
     
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    No Lysander, your wrong. I'm certain you won't have a problem providing evidence to the contrary should your assertion be correct.
     
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    The achilles heel of the XB360 is, as always, going to be software. At some point in the future, someone is going to ship a game with a buffer overflow. Hackers will then use this exploit to inject a loader onto the system in which to load their own shell. It's only a matter of time from there, until they figure out how to boot backup copies via this process. There may also be a flaw in the way the CPU based protections work that allows the PROM to be overridden.

    Then there are more sophisticated hacks. If for example, the PROM checksum is based on a CRC or MD5, a replacement prom can be created that checksums to the same values. (MD5 has been broken recently)

    Also, it may be possible to trick the CPU into encrypting a PROM for you with its internal key. In which case, the process of installing a modchip would be more complicated, but would involve first using an buffer overflow exploint to inject code which creates an encrypted PROM for you, next, storing that new PROM into EEPROM, and finally replacing the onboard PROM with your EEPROM.

    I think it'll happen. Look how fast OSX was cracked, and they were also using a trusted computing module.
     
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    Question is... is it going to be from another first party developer? :wink: :lol:
     
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    Well, it is a hearsay, but I think he was telling the truth (he never lied before). He has the live linux cd, which change the boot mode of 360.
     
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