The recent developments for restoring Linux on the PS3 are heating up and it seems we may have our very missed Linux support back on our PS3s. Kmeaw has released a video of linux running PS3 firmware 3.55, to quote via IRC:
kmeaw: it is gentoo
kmeaw: marcan’s rootfs
stuntcock: does your linux install have access to gameos from within linux and also to all spus?
kmeaw: no
kmeaw: it doesn’t need usb stick
kmeaw: linux has access to all spus
kmeaw: gentoo is running from my laptop’s hdd
kmeaw: but if you change your kernel parameters then you can install it on ps3?s hdd like marcan did
Lush: is this a different approach than graf_chokolo?
kmeaw: i don’t change VFLASH
GraFfiX: kmeaw:does X launch?
kmeaw: haven’t tried yet but I think of a reason why it shouldn’t
kmeaw: Xfbdev will definitely work
kmeaw: in this video ps3 boots gentoo from the network via nfs
kmeaw: laptop’s harddrive partition is exported using nfs kernel server
GraFfiX: is nfs efficient?
GraFfiX: like speed-wise
kmeaw: yes, i have a home NAS exported via nfs
kmeaw: works faster for me than samba
kmeaw: there are no full support for rsx yet
kmeaw: s/are/is/
GraFfiX: kmeaw:do you see any reason why xbmc would not run when we have full rsx?
stuntcock: someone has to code a driver for the video
stuntcock: right
kmeaw: no
kmeaw: when we have full rsx support in linux drivers, then everything should work
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Here's a video.
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