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On another note, there should be a hypervisor dump floating around next week. What's the policy here regarding that? As always, posting copyrighted material (like a firmware dump) is not allowed. You are allowed to discuss legal methods of obtaining it (such as dumping it yourself) and information ...

http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-isolated-spus.html He is my god!! in a few weeks he opened the ps3 scene!!! AMAZING!! Opened up the PS3 scene to what? He still doesn't have a method even planned to run unsigned code in GameOS, and there's no way to sign code. He can decrypt games and firmw...

I've been following this. Some of his assumptions contradict what little I recall of Cell security, but I could easily be wrong. I'm guessing he's reading and writing memory from an external FPGA wired into the memory bus... assuming that's possible. But he's assuming that by playing with hypervisor...

No offense, but I think comments at the PS Blogs are a lot more likely to get noticed by Sony than complaints posted here or personal blogs. Well, both is even much better (my post is #666 on the US blog, sooo evil) I would suggest going to 4chan /b/ and getting a flash mob to comment on them but k...

Under some logic it makes it cheaper to not boot Linux but still have the same hardware, any theory how that is feasible? I'm at a lost.. on the last site i wrote my guess, that they still might make some loss with every ps3 and they want to earn money by selling games. Or the other way around, eve...

I'm hearing rumblings that this was a relatively arbitrary decision by someone high up in Sony, but a lot of people there are still supportive of Linux on the PS3. I'm told there's a chance posting complaints on the Playstation Blog (U.S. and EU) might actually have a positive effect in this case.

http://uk.playstation.com/games-media/news/articles/detail/item229653/Entertainment-on-PS3-has-a-new-look// English link http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/18/sony-debuts-slimmer-ps3/ the question is if its just the slim or if its a firmware 3.0 thing... I can't see them nuking existing features in a ...

Hello. This patch provides basic support for video on the Sony PS3 Linux framebuffer. Scaling, format-conversion, and drawing is done from the SPEs, so there is little performance impact to PPE applications. This is by no means production quality code, but it is a very good start and a good example...

First, we don't do hacking here... not like that. Second, you're a little confused about the speed. Even just using the PPE alone, it matches the speed of those 1.7 GHz G5s Appple used to make. It kicks the shit out a P3. That's not even counting the SPEs. Where it's lacking is HARDWARE RENDERED 3D...

Great answer JFreyes, I think I'll go with YDL 6.1. So how about my second question, is there a danger of deleting my save game files when I format the PS3 drive to install YDL? Yes, I'm quite sure it'll delete everything when you format the PS3 drive. There's a backup utility built into the firmwa...

Haven't had a chance to install it yet, but I was wondering if anyone's tried the Cell Superscaler library that's included. Sounds like an interesting way to make software use the SPEs; just tag a function in C that you want to run on an SPE, with the caveat that the function can only use local vari...

IronPeter, this is probably off-topic, but I've been wondering if the PS3 you're testing on has some PS2 hardware in it. It might be interesting if you stumbled across that... ;)

It seem like these function perfom TILES & ZCULL setup. First parameters of these functions change from 0 to number of color & depth tiles ( params of lv1_gpu_memory_allocate ). I'm mildly surprised no one's replied yet, but that is an interesting find. Lends credence to the theory that the...

When you use Linux on the Playstation 3, you have access to 6 of the 8 Synergistic Processing Units of the CBE. Many people have constructed Playstation 3 clusters, but I don't understand what you mean by getting them 'on our house on our ps3'. To clarify, the CBE in the PS3 only has 7 working SPUs...

Ah, looks like there's no video connection, shoulda guessed since it's a rackmount. I really wish someone would make a Cell-based workstation someday... :( From the 'Brochure': The unit also accepts an optional BKCU-VD1 video display board with a DVI-I output, useful for outputting calculation resu...

Ah, looks like there's no video connection, shoulda guessed since it's a rackmount. I really wish someone would make a Cell-based workstation someday... :(

I guess this needs to be moved to the 'other development' forum..... but just came across this after more searching - http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/sony/bcu-100.shtml it's listed as having 2gigs of ram :) This could have some interesting implications for RSX access in the PS3's linux. ...

Does no one else know about mesa's OpenGL on Cell project? http://www.mesa3d.org/cell.html Word has it the April build of the driver was broken, and I don't know if anyone's worked on it since. I've had a really hard time trying to build it on Ubuntu; I'd start a thread about it but I've never had m...

So if I Use a fw 2.01 or lower, I can run native linux games as DOOM4 or quake without any problem using RSX? No. Wait... Doom 4? There's not even screenshots of that yet. In theory, you should be able to play the original Quake no matter what firmware you have, since it was originally software ren...

Agreed, stick with Ubuntu. You'll have much more trouble with other distros, I promise :)

try: apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r`

Hi and thanks for replying. I think the problem is much bigger. The point is, I have so little experiance with linux, ... this is frustrating. Actually, I need to access the keyboard( async ) , the controller, the mouse and lastly, I also need access to the fb. Fortunately Im able to compile the fb...

I'm not sure if you can use Mesa with SDL, probably you can but by default it renders to Xlib on X, OpenGL/OpenGL+dri if you have hw accel or framebuffer on console. For windowing and other convenience functionality you can use glut, which I think is included with the mesa sourcecode. I just notice...

OpenGL *is* all done in hardware these days. A prize to anyone who can point out one non-trivially part of OpenGL that isn't implemented in hardware? Depends on what you mean by non-trivial. One of the truly annoying things about OpenGL is doesn't like you finding out what is and is not handled by ...

I strongly disagree about the "uslessness" of software rendered OpenGL. I suppose that it is useless for games and rendering of complicated scenes, but I wrote a program to analyze an optical instrument (a build-up cavity for enhanced second harmonic generation) and it is rendered very qu...

You're both misinformed. There's some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_3D Whilst Mesa 3D supports several hardware graphics accelerators, it may also be compiled as a software-only renderer. Basically, Mesa 3D is an implementation of the OpenGL API that you can plug your hardware accele...

It's worth mentioning that even if people do upgrade to >2.10, there's still Cell video acceleration thanks to unsolo and spu-medialib, and I know that the mesa opengl people are FINALLY actually working on OpenGL for the Cell, and Sony will never shut that down as long as you can run linux on the P...

I'll try to get that quote for you. First hand is a lot better than second hand I agree. The Sony kernel documentation from 2006-11-10, in "LinuxKernelOverwiew.html", the head states: Linux Kernel Overview Copyright © 2006 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Copyright © 2006 Sony Corp. and b...

One big problem is that Sony said from day one that they would disallow accelerated graphics (read : RSX access) and they haven't said anything to the contrary since then. I keep hearing that second-hand, but I've never seen a quote from Sony. The closest I've seen is from a Cell whitepaper by IBM ...

I agree with jimparis here. Sony has demoed a Cell blade that's a Cell + RSX with 1 GB of ram, and they've made some minor noises about selling it. But for that to be even slightly interesting, there will have to be software that works with both the Cell and RSX, and the best way to get that is to a...

Well, when you consider the only other console that has more than about 88 MB of memory (afaik) is the 360, I doubt memory's going to be much of an issue, since I doubt the PS3 is going to be able to emulate the 360 no matter how much memory the PS3 has.