Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)
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The PS4 team makes the bus observable by wiring the southbridge to another motherboard and using an FPGA to impersonate a PCIe device. Booting Linux then requires explicit memory and CPU preparation.
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Now the southbridge is a PCIe card for us.shut down FreeBSD cleanly, halt secondary CPUs, make new pagetables