Is it possible it update PS3 drivers?

[Cecil2016_Gaming]

I was wondering if it was possible to update drivers for specific chips within the console?

 

[bguerville]

I was wondering if it was possible to update drivers for specific chips within the console?

Device drivers are included in the hypervisor (lv1.self) which is like a virtual machine manager interfacing the hardware and the OS whether it's GameOS, OtherOS Linux.., or others in theory, updating them would require messing with the hypervisor code, fundamentally it's possible, everything is possible in theory BUT in practice it wouldn't be straightforward to say the least, quite the opposite.

 

[Cecil2016_Gaming]

Device drivers are included in the hypervisor (lv1.self) which is like a virtual machine manager interfacing the hardware and the OS whether it's GameOS, OtherOS Linux.., or others in theory, updating them would require messing with the hypervisor code, fundamentally it's possible, everything is possible in theory BUT in practice it wouldn't be straightforward to say the least, quite the opposite.

So, you would have to recode a ton of other things!?

 

[bguerville]

So, you would have to recode a ton of other things!?

Well yeah I would assume so, first you would need to locate the entire device driver code in disassembled binaries, it may not be so easy, and not every dev will be able to do that, then once found, it would need replaced with your own ppc code, and the real headfuck starts lol

Alternatively, depending on which device you intend to work on, you could also leave the current code as is, probably wiser, and instead at runtime you might be able to hook the hypervisor functions that make use of the device, divert them to new functions that would make use of your own driver code compiled for ppc and poked into lv1 memory space.

Either way you would need very good hacking skills and ppc fluency to undertake such an enterprise.

 

[Cecil2016_Gaming]

Well yeah I would assume so, first you would need to locate the entire device driver code in disassembled binaries, it may not be so easy, and not every dev will be able to do that, then once found, it would need replaced with your own ppc code, and the real headfuck starts lol

Alternatively, depending on which device you intend to work on, you could also leave the current code as is, probably wiser, and instead at runtime you might be able to hook the hypervisor functions that make use of the device, divert them to new functions that would make use of your own driver code compiled for ppc and poked into lv1 memory space.

Either way you would need very good hacking skills and ppc fluency to undertake such an enterprise.

I was wondering because I wanted to see if it would boost anything! Like with wifi, wlan, cpu, gpu and any other chips that could be boosted!