PS5 Linux hack now supports (some) newer firmware versions

You may recall hearing the PS5 can now run Linux. The catch was that it needed a console running older firmware, from before Sony nixed the exploit used. Well, the door is now a little ajar again (‘get a better metaphor, Joey’ – the world). A new pLinux5-NG project adapts the old PS5 Linux bootloader to different security exploits, the Relapse jailbreak and Byepervisor-Reborn, the latter to circumvent the console’s hypervisor protections. This enables booting Linux on PS5 consoles with newer firmware versions than were previously supported, up to 13.60. But, catch time, this effort only officially supports firmware 13.20 right now. Sony’s newer 14.00 […] You're reading PS5 Linux hack now supports (some) newer firmware versions, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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