Status/TODO

Xbox Linux ROM ("Cromwell") and the XBE boot code ("xbeboot"/"Xromwell") have to be integrated to have a unified boot solution for ROM and XBE users.
 

Work on the Bochs PC-BIOS code has to be completed. With PC-BIOS code, the Xbox Linux ROM and the Xbox Linux Bootloader will be able to run standard Linux bootloaders such as Grub or Lilo, as well as other operating systems.
 

Complete rivafb, all modes
 

Write an Accelerated X Window driver (reverse engineering of nVidia binary driver)
 

Put Xbox Controller and IR driver code together, as they share the same protocol. At the moment, we have two different drivers.
 

Write a driver for the Xbox DVD drives that maps lock/unlock and eject requests to the corresponding I2C commands and patches the DVD compatibility flag. The Xbox DVD drives are not 100% identical with standard PC drives; a driver that hands down most commands to the standard ATAPI driver and passes the others to the I2C interface should cleanly solve this problem.
 

Patch the Linux usb-storage driver to support Xbox Memory Units

Clean up the kernel tree and make it Linus-conforming, so that our patches can be included into the standard kernel tree. The Xbox patches are compiled into the kernel if CONFIG_XBOX is defined. But the kernel style says that all #ifdef's must be hidden in .h files and mustn't be in .c files, and we are supposed to convert CONFIG_XBOX to CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT, i.e. if we turn this kernel configuration parameter on, the kernel will be Xbox-compatible, but it will still work perfectly on a PC without any drawbacks. So we have to add a test for the Xbox at an early place and set a variable, and check for this variable whenever we have to fix something.

Dashboard Boot Method Testing: For all those who want to use Linux on the Xbox just as an option, and who do not want to replace the MS Dashboard completely, we provide the MS Dashboard boot manager patch, i.e. the installer adds a menu entry to the MS Dashboard that will boot Linux. We have already reverse-engineered the scripting language of the dashboard, and we can also already provide an installer that adds the additional menu entry, but this installer is still beta quality and has to be tested thoroughly.
This application can then easily be included into any distribution, it will work just as any other bootmanager frontend, such as /usr/sbin/grub or /sbin/lilo.

Savegame Reverse-Engineering: There is already one game that is based on Xbox Linux, there might be more games in the future. We can access the savegame database on drive D:, if we know how to access this database correctly. Then games will have the possibility to save their state on the hard disk, just like ordinary Xbox games. Xbox Linux distributions can also store their data as if it was savegame data.We need more information about the format.