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Anyway... I've no idea what the "oslabs.org 64bit experimental gentoo linux" but you are probably better off giving it a miss - the official Gentoo PS3 install is experimental enough:) To go the official root with a stage 4 and livecd: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/InstallGento...

edepot wrote:From my understanding, I think mtb's tarball came from his 20GB PS3

Do you mind - no it didn't!

20GB... Jeez.

:)

Well, after a week of learning much more about the inner working of gcc than I ever wished to, I give you a new Gentoo tarball with the Cell toolchain put together by the PPC64 developer lu_zero pre-installed and setup. Forget the official gcc-4.1.1 in Cell-SDK2.0 and the "other" distribut...

No need to worry: When compiling with -O2, copying the memory with 64 bit access and reordering the access (line-by-line instead of column-by-column) you can do 10 full screen blits with an additional 50 pixel bar overlay in 13 ms :-) Shine, do you have that updated code, would be cool of we could ...

Both FC and ydl have PPC64 branches, but their installs for PS3 are 32bit. I'm confused. I was looking at the install image on page http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/ and it is named "ppc64bcmfix.img". Maybe the Supercomputer Center has released a 64 bit version? Is tha...

Both FC and ydl have PPC64 branches, but their installs for PS3 are 32bit. Shame on you Shine for doubting me:) See the notes at - http://www.cellperformance.com/articles/2006/11/crosscompiling_for_ps3_linux.html#install_linux NOTE: For the sake of this article, Yellow Dog Linux 5 (32 bit version fo...

Hi Me and shine have been bouncing idea's off each other on IRC about PS3 homebrew as today we got full PPU and PPE toolchains working on a 64bit distribution - the problem is I don't think there is a site out there tracking PS3 homebrew - and it's an area that could explode at any moment. You have ...

<mtb> Wahoo! <mtb> PS3 spu # ./ppu_hello <mtb> Hello, World! &#40;From SPU&#58;0&#41; <lu_zero> =&#41; <lu_zero> great =&#41; <mtb> hmm, guess that works&#58;&#41; <lu_zero> seems so =&#41; <mtb> also <mtb> PS3 spu # elfspe2 spu_hello <mtb> Hello, World! &#40;Fro...

One little thing to watch out for - for stage1 it uses gcc-4.3, so before starting the process you need to:

export I_PROMISE_TO_SUPPLY_PATCHES_WITH_BUGS=1

:)

No you want to give those precompiled packages a wide birth. crossdev ppu will not work as the ppu (powerpc processor unit) is part of the PPE - and you already have a toolchain for the PPE. So I think you need to jump that bit and go straight to cossdev spu - though I haven't had time to look into ...

Shine wrote: It's time to port Lua Player :-)

Heh, that would be great:)

I've pointed people on the gentoo.org forum towards your install tutorial, we have had a few people on irc for whom the manual install was a bit much.

However, I didn't see where he set up a window manager. Window manager? It's Gentoo - why would I install a window manager? :) The only thing that is PS3 specific is the initial install, see the docs at www.gentoo.com for installing xorg etc - they spend a lot of time and money on their manuals so ...

To be blunt, I and probably everyone else here don't give a monkey's what distribution you use. The thread isn't called Gentoo Vs other distributions/discuss - it's on installing Gentoo. Then why did you start the thread with this statement? Lets face it, nobody would want to run FC5 or YDL on thei...

Comparing an optimized Gentoo install to a generic FC5 install... real fair. Spend as much time tuning FC5 as you did putting Gentoo together and it'll run just as fast. There are all kinds of web pages dedicated to making Fedora work better for different systems - for example, when memory is a lit...

Personally, Fedora Core is my favorite distro. I'm running FC6 on my system right now. Never cared much for Gentoo... And? Guess you haven't used FC5 on a PS3... You need to treat the PS3 due to the limitations of the PPU and lack of memory as an embedded system - and the last thing you would ever ...

Lets face it, nobody would want to run FC5 or YDL on their desktop, so why on earth would they want to install them on their PS3? :) http://www.daniel.jp/joomla/info/ps3/installing-gentoo-on-the-ps3.html There is also a version for people with an aversion to spending 2 days compiling gnome:) http://...

But lets be honest, how different do you guys think that the PS3 XMB OS is from PSP? Don't you think someone will exploit it and open it up to homebrew developers and piracy... Considering the hyperviser on cell, the Playstation 5 will be out before unsigned code is run under the GameOS on the PS3:...

Anyway, my only remaining doubt is whether we'll get a good OpenGL driver from the start. But seeing as RSX is very similar to NV's desktop parts, and their desktop Linux support has been quite reasonable, it should work out well. Or initially any 3D/DRI support at all:) E17 uses it's own compositi...

We were told it will be initially available at www.ydl.net (for subscribers). The only way I can see that working is a bootable install cd. Which if true is very, very interesting:)

Job #1 will be to get Gentoo up and going:) And then my first look at ffmpeg in years...