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That means you can possibly unlock an extra SPE for your Linux or other uses (depending whether your 8th SPE is dead or not) | That means you can possibly unlock an extra SPE for your Linux or other uses (depending whether your 8th SPE is dead or not) | ||
You can read/write to that offset through the Update Manager. | |||
This procedure has been successfully tested on one of my playstation 3 units (CECH-2500), you may however get unexpected result should your 8th SPE happen to be defective) | This procedure has been successfully tested on one of my playstation 3 units (CECH-2500), you may however get unexpected result should your 8th SPE happen to be defective) | ||
Alternatively you could hook the SPI bus and modify the config ring on the fly but that requires additional hardware. | Alternatively you could hook the SPI bus and modify the config ring on the fly but that requires additional hardware. | ||