Re: ports, big and small, two questions
--- Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:55:47AM -0800, brian
> wrote:
> > 2) has anyone work or interest or heard any plans
> to
> > port to playstation3, or even some cell-ppc of
> some
> > kind ?
>
> I have been contacted by Sony to get the playstation
> 3 work going. But unless
> we have access to hardware, this is rather academic.
> I know Konstantinos is
> interested in Cell work.
well this is hopeful news to me, that, Sony is
actually
encouraging to debian.
as far as hardware, i had looked at one, but i don't
quite understand why the initial model maybe only is
limited to the 256MB of RAM that it comes with. that
is not really enough to be building debian i think
(some packages need 1GB to build)...
the mad rush some people just bought them but there
is only 1 game available yet in english so some are
up for resale.
>
> > if you haven't looked at yellow dog site lately
> you
> > might,
> > see where $$$ sponsorship and prof porting is
> going
> > lately.
>
> Terrasoft has some problem, their business model
> used to be reselling Apple
> XServe's to build clusters and stuff. This has
> changed some. They are now
> interested in selling the cell blades in this way,
> and the playstation III
> makes a good test case.
i suppose, although they are backordering the ps3
(not to expect before march) they are shipping ydl5
now which is earlier than i thought it would be
(they needed lead time) ... maybe they got some
funding from sony to produce it on time to bundle
with the original ps3 shipments.
>
> > if you do have a look consider there saying "good
> > riddance" to apple, except may be continue to
> support
> > previous ppc apple.
>
> They are selling non-ppc apple though.
yes, that's the point, don't we need that, i mean
new hardware, not all big servers, but new designs ?
i talk to a guy who works in game industry he says
sony makes one platform and they will stick with it
for five years. not like apple changes all these
models
of the g4s, confusing, and still not really innovating
except around the edges, mostly defense their long
habit
of survivals. apples business of selling software
upgrade i think even they don't understand their own
models until 3 years after they make them...
>
> Anyway, the problem is availability of hardware, and
> the fact that etch is now
> kind-of frozen, and it will be hard to include the
> playstation III kernel
> patches into it, or the cell-targetting toolchain
> for that matter.
well i did see a block in the kernel source called
cell.
i don't know what it is about their nano kernel. it
is supposed to be sort of closed. i don't know if
that makes it more like netbsd or macosX. that's
why i was wondering if anyone had it running.
i don't know if it might be easier to crack than
motorolas had their private releases with 2.6.x series
for their project boards. it seems like the interest
here in those has been more or less none.
>
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