ps2dev / ps2client

Desktop clients to interact with ps2link and ps2netfs

PS2Client

PS2CLIENT USAGE AND INFORMATION

THE INTRODUCTION

These programs, ps2client & fsclient, are command line tools used for interacting with a ps2 system running ps2link and/or ps2netfs. It will allow you to send various commands as well as respond to requests for data. This program was written and tested under Linux, Cygwin and Mac OS X but should compile on any reasonably unixlike system.

BUILDING THE CLIENTS

Building and installing is very simple:

make clean; make install

There are some build options, however:

PREFIX=/dir

Install directory, defaults to: $PS2DEV. /bin will be automatically appended. The software will be installed to the /bin sub-directory, under PREFIX (PREFIX/bin).

These options can be used as follows:

make clean; make PREFIX=/new/path/prefix install

BUILDING WINDOWS BINARIES

For building windows binaries on Unix system, you need to setup mingw cross-compiler and win32 threads. Build command:

make -f Makefile.mingw32

BASIC CLIENT USAGE

Basic usage:

ps2client [-h hostname] [-t timeout] <command> [arguments]
fsclient [-h hostname] <command> <arguments>

[-h hostname]

The address of the remote ps2. This can be an IP or a hostname. If none is given, the environment variable $PS2HOSTNAME will be checked for a valid address. If this variable isn't set, a default of 192.168.0.10 will be used.

[-t timeout]

An idle timeout period in seconds that the client will wait before exiting. This is useful to allow a script to continue after calling ps2client to send a command to ps2link or ps2netfs.

PS2LINK COMMANDS

• reset

Send a reset request to ps2link.

• execiop <filename> [arguments]

Tell ps2link to load and execute a file on the IOP.

• execee <filename> [arguments]

Tell ps2link to load and execute a file on the EE.

• poweroff

Send a poweroff request to ps2link.

• scrdump

Tell ps2link to dump exceptions to the screen.

• netdump

Tell ps2link to dump execetions to the network console.

• dumpmem <offset> <size> <filename>

Dump the contents of memory into a file.

• startvu <vu>

Tell the specified vector unit to start operation.

• stopvu <vu>

Tell the specified vector unit to stop operation.

• dumpreg <type> <filename>

Dump the registers of a given type into a file.

• gsexec <size> <filename>

Tell ps2link to load and send a file to the GS.

• writemem <offset> <size> <filename>

Write the contents of a file into memory.

• iopexcep

I really don't know! OH NOES!!

• listen

Listen to the ps2link network console.