On Aug 20, 2009 10:30pm, Michael Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
On hearing about Sony dropping support for "Other Operating Systems" on the new slim PS3, it has peaked my interest in running Linux on my 'Phat' PS3.
Has anyone here run Linux on PS3?
I have my PS3 Running Yelllow Dog
What distro? Any general feedback? Is it fast / slow / worth the effort?
It depends. But it is mainly running on Framebuffer, and 256MB of RAM isn't alot. However, you can take a look at spu-medialib. It uses the spu for rendering and is good enough to render at full HD, 1080p. It is still worth it if you want to try out Power4 arch and spu programming.
Is installation / partitioning / dual booting, etc trouble free?
It is a breeze for yellow dog. But I'd recommend replacing the 80GB HDD with at least 500GB or larger one. Btw, you can't have both Gbit ethernet and Wifi on at the same time, it is either one or the other, not sure if
you can use a usb wifi dongle.
Has anyone done any cell coding for the SPU?
Did some for fun, but I am using OpenCL right now, on nvidia cards but there are things
that SPU can do that OpenCL can't. Incidentally, Intel Larrabee is very similar in arch. Cheers, Kim Yong
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