Hi Kim Yong,
[email protected] wrote:
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.
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> Has anyone here run Linux on PS3?
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I have my PS3 Running Yelllow Dog
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> What distro? Any general feedback? Is it fast / slow / worth the effort?
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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.
Ya, it is a pity they don't expose the GPU.
It may be nice running a lightweight netbook desktop - perhaps moblin
clutter.
I see there is work on an SPU port of mesa under the new galium driver
architecture, while not using the GPU, it should gain a bit of grunt
from the SPU. Although I'm afraid the sort of exercise in getting this
running would not be for the faint of heart.
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> Is installation / partitioning / dual booting, etc trouble free?
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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.
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> Has anyone done any cell coding for the SPU?
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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.
Sounds interesting. I've been taking a glance at OpenCL lately (as it
has popped up in latest XCode on Snow Leopard) but have not had a chance
to write anything for it yet...
I would be interested to catch up at some point to hear about your
experiences...
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