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Using Kexec Allows Starting Linux In PlayStation 4

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-the-darpa-supercomputers dept.

jones_supa writes: Team fail0verflow, the hacker group who made Sony PlayStation 4, has introduced another method to start Linux in the game console. Instead of the previous exploit which was based on a security hole in an old PS4 firmware version, the new trick allows a kexec call to start Linux through Orbis OS (the FreeBSD-based system software of PS4). The code can be found in GitHub. Maybe this will lead to more and better PlayStation clusters.

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  1. Why bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If freebsd is underneath the whole PS4 system, then why not just use that instead of booting into linux? Seems a little excessive.