Hi Sascha, On 12/08/2017 01:24 AM, Sascha Schroeder wrote: > I yesterday tried to compile the newest kernel 4.14 for my PS3 running > OtherOS++ and "Red Ribbon GNU Linux" from 2014. I even succeeded and > created the three *.deb files and installed them afterwards. > > Unfortunately, my machine did not boot. > > As far as I read in very old sources, this could be that my machine is > using OtherOS++ on firmware 3.55.2 and not the Sony OtherOS prior > firmware 3.2x. > > I'm in contact with the creator from "Red Ribbon" and he mentioned we > have to manually patch PS3 linux kernel. > > So, my question 1 would be: which patches would I need to get the newest > kernel 4.14 running on my PS3 machine?
I don't know about your machine with OtherOS++ on firmware 3.55.2, but for FAT and DECR-1400 models with firmware 3.15 or lower the otheros.bld built from the latest ps3-queue-v4.14 branch of my ps3-linux repo using either ps3_petitboot_defconfig or ps3_petitboot_nfs_defconfig will boot if written to flash memory using ps3-flash-util or the XMB [Install Other OS]. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git Be aware that there was a kernel ABI breakage effecting kexec and that the ps3-petitboot-09.11.30 I released cannot boot kernels newer than linux-v3.15. See: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg126348.html (Boot new kernel on PS3) https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org/msg66884.html (PS3?) I'm working towards an updated petitboot release. > Question 2 would be: maybe there exists a second tree where we can get > the kernel for OtherOS++ too? Sorry, I don't know. You'll need to ask for help in the hacker community for OtherOS++. > Maybe there is other stuff I am missing, but as far as I can tell the > sources compile beautifully on the PS3 powerpc machine. Only downside: > it takes 4-5 hours depending on what you selected in the step of "make > menuconfig"... I highly recommend you cross compile on a PC. -Geoff