Cromwell is a replacement firmware for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console that has been developed by the Xbox Linux Project. If programmed onto the onboard flash chip of the Xbox or a modchip, it can boot the Linux operating system and practically convert the Xbox into a full PC. It is unusual in that it is a legal firmware (because it does not use any of Microsoft's code to function) and was developed primarily through reverse-engineering of the original Microsoft BIOS and its boot process. In light of this, many Xbox modchip manufacturers ship this firmware with their chips to avoid litigation and copyright infringement claims. The main function of this firmware is to load the Linux operating system, although it also supports other features, such as the ability to reprogram the hardware with another firmware image, lock and unlock the hard disk, and change video mode (PAL/NTSC). Unlike the vast majority of Xbox firmware images, it is not able to load Xbox games (either original or otherwise). This is because the original Microsoft firmware image contains the kernel of the Xbox operating system (widely believed to be a stripped-down Windows 2000 derivative) - that is, the firmware is the operating system. As Cromwell does not contain this, it is not able to allow games to load and function. Cromwell includes code from other open source projects, but combines them in a unique way. This is a list of components that can be found in Cromwell: a Linux 2.6-derived USB stack in a standalone version (i.e. it runs without Linux) Linux kernel-derived JPEG decompression code Etherboot networking code GRUB filesystem support and bootloader code The standalone version of the Linux USB stack from Cromwell has been ported to the ReactOS operating system.

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Notable quotes

“If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.”
— On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion (first published 1702–1704) by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674)
“Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.”
— On the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”
— Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717)
“There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.”
— To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
“You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.”
— Speech to Parliament (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361
“A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.”
— As quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays (1841), Essay X: 'Circles', p. 265

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Notable quotes

“If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.”
— On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion (first published 1702–1704) by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674)
“Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.”
— On the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”
— Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717)
“There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.”
— To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
“You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.”
— Speech to Parliament (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361
“A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.”
— As quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays (1841), Essay X: 'Circles', p. 265

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Overview

Cromwell is a replacement firmware for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console that has been developed by the Xbox Linux Project. If programmed onto the onboard flash chip of the Xbox or a modchip, it can boot the Linux operating system and practically convert the Xbox into a full PC. It is unusual in that it is a legal firmware (because it does not use any of Microsoft's code to function) and was developed primarily through reverse-engineering of the original Microsoft BIOS and its boot process. In light of this, many Xbox modchip manufacturers ship this firmware with their chips to avoid litigation and copyright infringement claims. The main function of this firmware is to load the Linux operating system, although it also supports other features, such as the ability to reprogram the hardware with another firmware image, lock and unlock the hard disk, and change video mode (PAL/NTSC). Unlike the vast majority of Xbox firmware images, it is not able to load Xbox games (either original or otherwise). This is because the original Microsoft firmware image contains the kernel of the Xbox operating system (widely believed to be a stripped-down Windows 2000 derivative) - that is, the firmware is the operating system. As Cromwell does not contain this, it is not able to allow games to load and function. Cromwell includes code from other open source projects, but combines them in a unique way. This is a list of components that can be found in Cromwell: a Linux 2.6-derived USB stack in a standalone version (i.e. it runs without Linux) Linux kernel-derived JPEG decompression code Etherboot networking code GRUB filesystem support and bootloader code The standalone version of the Linux USB stack from Cromwell has been ported to the ReactOS operating system.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cromwell is a replacement firmware for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console that has been developed by the Xbox Linux Project. If programmed onto the onboard flash chip of the Xbox or a modchip, it can boot the Linux operating system and practically convert the Xbox into a full PC.

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