Still no word on the SATA AHCI Blu-Ray support

Jan 7, 2016 02:17 GMT  ·  By

We reported on the last days of 2015 that a group of talented hackers that go by the name of fail0verflow managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console to run the Gentoo Linux operating system.

The hack was made possible due to a broken NOP command on the integrated AMD Radeon GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), something that Sony might not be able to fix anytime soon.

If you read our initial report, you should know by now that, among the hardware components supported by the Linux hack, there are Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, HDMI encoder, S/PDIF audio, IRQs, PCI, serial port, framebuffer, and kernel modesetting.

At that point in time, the fail0verflow team promised to continue working on the hack and make other hardware components function under Linux as well, such as 3D acceleration, HDMI audio, SATA AHCI Blu-Ray, and USB.

Well, it didn't take them long to announce that 3D acceleration, which was the most important of them all, now works properly. "Who said 3D drivers for the PS4 wouldn't happen any time soon?" writes the fail0verflow team on their Twitter account.

For those who didn't watch the presentation with the Linux hack for PlayStation 4, which was demoed at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32c3) event on December 30, 2015, we've attached the video below. More details about the 3D acceleration can be found on GitHub.