Has anyone else tried Linux for the PS3? I just repartitioned the drive (using menus in the built-in firmware), and installed Gentoo.
Interesting machine. It seems that everything is custom. All of the devices probed are on the PS3 bus (no PCI), and are things like, PS3 disk, or PS3 SD controller. But, Sony provides drivers, so it seems to work well. I can't say I've ever seen 8 penguins before, especially with some bigger than others. There are two big penguins for the two main cores, and then 6 smaller penguins for the cell processors. I haven't tried finding anything that could use the cells. There is supposed to be a dev-kit available for it, and although it is programmed in high-level languages such as C, it apparently isn't all that easy. It's certainly faster than my other PowerPC based machines, but just as a general computer, it's still slower than the Core2. The boot-loader is interesting. It's a small linux kernel and initrd that reads config files and can kexec the main kernel. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
