I understand this may be totally out of line of me, or the team may just be against releasing it, but I would like to ask for the patch/advice/some other form of tips as to patching older kernels to implement the no XboxLive hack that first appeared in X2 4980.
You see, I have a v1.0 xbox, and I performed a TSOP split (two ways) because my LPC bus is slightly damaged and FRAGs with my X2 chip (not sure what's wrong right now, but I don't think I'll be able to fix it) so I cannot use my LPC chip and my guess is a 29 wire chip won't help either (I also doubt the possiblity of finding a 29-wire for sale anymore...).
So, my TSOP works great, etc. etc. EXCEPT I cannot have a multibios (i.e. every bios ever released since something like 2002) and M$ bios coexisting on the same TSOP; whichever one is on banks 1+2 will work fine, but the one on banks 3+4 will FRAG, guranteed. I tried this already with X2 5035, and several tutorials have mentioned the inherent issue found with multi-bioses.
You ask, "why does he want a hacked bios AND MS on there?" well, it's actually a friends' xbox, and he does not want to stop using Live, so it needs both a M$ bios and a X2 bios.
I am currently "stuck" if you will with v1.0 4973; not really stuck because it does all I want it too, (with minor tweaks to the binary data I have made myself) except disabling XboxLive, but I can't go anywhere else but backwards.
The no XBL hack is a precaution I would love to take, due to the lack of ANY signals during the system's normally functioning that X2 bios is loaded, besides a diff bootup screen- I haven't figured out the colors of the front LED eject ring (No functional help from any configurator, even XBTool, besides X color hacks), and the simple Radio Shack switch that changes banks does not have a light, nor can i wire a light into it)
I have already attempted finding the sections of changed code between the 4979 and 4980 kernels, as the only change was the XBL disabling, but it has been a fruitless search as of yet because of a few reasons, most notably because 4980's main body of code is a few offsets ahead of 4979 (the whole thing is shifted over a few spaces, making "find diff" return EVERY VALUE beyond the initial few hundred lines) I will continue to inspect these two in my attempts to patch myself a 1.0 bios with XBL disabled, but I would be most grateful if someone "in the know"- a dev, or just an abnormally skilled person etc XD could get into touch with me. On the same note, I totally understand if you do not wish to release this kind of information, and hate me for this. Thank You!
P.S. If you devs hate it and it's way outta line, please let me know so I don't offend more people with this question!
You see, I have a v1.0 xbox, and I performed a TSOP split (two ways) because my LPC bus is slightly damaged and FRAGs with my X2 chip (not sure what's wrong right now, but I don't think I'll be able to fix it) so I cannot use my LPC chip and my guess is a 29 wire chip won't help either (I also doubt the possiblity of finding a 29-wire for sale anymore...).
So, my TSOP works great, etc. etc. EXCEPT I cannot have a multibios (i.e. every bios ever released since something like 2002) and M$ bios coexisting on the same TSOP; whichever one is on banks 1+2 will work fine, but the one on banks 3+4 will FRAG, guranteed. I tried this already with X2 5035, and several tutorials have mentioned the inherent issue found with multi-bioses.
You ask, "why does he want a hacked bios AND MS on there?" well, it's actually a friends' xbox, and he does not want to stop using Live, so it needs both a M$ bios and a X2 bios.
I am currently "stuck" if you will with v1.0 4973; not really stuck because it does all I want it too, (with minor tweaks to the binary data I have made myself) except disabling XboxLive, but I can't go anywhere else but backwards.
The no XBL hack is a precaution I would love to take, due to the lack of ANY signals during the system's normally functioning that X2 bios is loaded, besides a diff bootup screen- I haven't figured out the colors of the front LED eject ring (No functional help from any configurator, even XBTool, besides X color hacks), and the simple Radio Shack switch that changes banks does not have a light, nor can i wire a light into it)
I have already attempted finding the sections of changed code between the 4979 and 4980 kernels, as the only change was the XBL disabling, but it has been a fruitless search as of yet because of a few reasons, most notably because 4980's main body of code is a few offsets ahead of 4979 (the whole thing is shifted over a few spaces, making "find diff" return EVERY VALUE beyond the initial few hundred lines) I will continue to inspect these two in my attempts to patch myself a 1.0 bios with XBL disabled, but I would be most grateful if someone "in the know"- a dev, or just an abnormally skilled person etc XD could get into touch with me. On the same note, I totally understand if you do not wish to release this kind of information, and hate me for this. Thank You!
P.S. If you devs hate it and it's way outta line, please let me know so I don't offend more people with this question!