ps2runner

Yo! I guess you're pretty passionate about testing, huh?

This is a docker image you can run on your raspberry pi, or other ARM/AMD64 computer. It allows you to boot and shutdown a Slim Playstation 2, as well as boot the PS2 into PS2Link (using one of the FreeMCBoot shortcut keys).

Prerequisites

An infrared transmitter, supported by LIRC, which is capable of transmitting at normal consumer remote-control frequencies (38khz of the top of my head?). I use an irdroid IRToy 2.
A Playstation 2 you've already set up to run PS2Link by holding a button down during boot. You can do this with FreeMCBoot (at least) - detailed instructions on doing that will be below.

Usage

The following usage examples assume you have an IRToy, like I do. Any IR transceiver compatible with LIRC that runs at ~38khz should be usable - but finding out what --device needs to be specified is left as something for you to figure out.

# to turn on your slim PS2:
docker run --rm --device /dev/ttyACM0 telyn/ps2runner ps2poweron
# to turn on your slim PS2 & boot into PS2Link. --network=host is needed to get
# PS2Link's bootup broadcast messages to show up in the container.
docker run --rm --network=host --device /dev/ttyACM0 telyn/ps2runner ps2bootlink

# to run an application on your already-booted PS2's EE:
docker run --rm --network=host telyn/ps2runner ps2run --ee
# to run an application on your already-booted PS2's IOP:
docker run --rm --network=host telyn/ps2runner ps2run --iop /path/to/some.irx
# to turn off your slim PS2:
docker run --rm --device /dev/ttyACM0 telyn/ps2runner ps2poweroff

All the IRX files included in the PS2 SDK in $PS2SDK/iop/irx are available in /irx for loading ps2run. For example:

docker run telyn/ps2runner ps2run --iop /irx/alloc.irx
docker run -v /example:/example telyn/ps2runner ps2run --iop /example/something-that-depends-on-alloc.irx

See the ps2-cunit-port repo's gitlab-ci.yml and gitlab template for example usage of this container within a CPU pipeline.

Future work

Optionally split the LIRC daemon into its own docker container, allowing the daemon to be run persistently to avoid the LIRC start-up cost.

Available environment variables

TODO:

LIRC_PLUGIN - driver plugin for LIRC to use
PS2LINK_BUTTON - button to hold to access PS2Link (defaults to L1)

FAQ

I guess you're pretty passionate about testing, huh?

Yeah.

telyn / ps2runner