Subject: Re: Availabilty of NetBSD/dreamcast 3.0_BETA LiveCD
To: None <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 04/26/2005 13:17:15
On 2005-04-26, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
> In article <98DDB6A8-9B5F-48CD-8FF8-C9EA1DCF91BB@shagadelic.org>
> thorpej@shagadelic.org wrote:
>
>> > It's a multisession CD and needs external tools from Marcus Comstedt.
>> > IMHO, this is somewhat out-of-scope of NetBSD. It's not a "standard"
>> > procedure to boot CDRs on the Dreamcast and SEGA may not like it :)
>> 
>> Those external tools should be brought into the tree as host tools,  
>> if possible.
>
> These extarnal _tools_ could be imported, but I doubt the boot binary
> (aka IP.BIN) can be redistributed officially.
> It might cantain strings of SEGA's copyright, which is shown on boot.

Exactly, that's my main concern. But we could import the tools and write
an HOWTO about it, anyway...

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