Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] installation-report: debian 7.1 wheezy installation success on PS3

On 8 August 2013 04:37, Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote:

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 01:58 +0100, Declan Malone wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 00:19, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> wrote:

>

> It's great to know that this is still working. However, I still have
> one big problem with my PS3: the spufs still doesn't work. I can load
> programs on the SPUs but nothing shows up under /spu and spu-top
> doesn't show any processes (though it does seem to show an increasing
> load across SPUs).

That sounds like this one, which I believe landed in 3.10:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6747e83235caecd30b186d1282e4eba7679f81b7

cheers

That's great. But I don't see any option to install a 3.10 kernel from my wheezy install. And as I said, I haven't been able to get any recent kernels that I compiled myself to run. I think that the problem is that I'm running 3.55 firmware with Debian running under OtherOS++ and there's no support in the kernels for this. Is that right? I also tried applying all the patches in Geoff's directory to the stock kernels, but that doesn't work either.

Now I'm stuck...

I'm considering just wiping everything and starting again by using the 3.55 "QA Flag CFW with SS patches" to ... "downgrade [my] ps3 from 3.55 to lower [3.15, I believe] firmwares" (according to the ps3devwiki instructions) then doing a regular OtherOS install of wheezy in the original Sony 3.15 firmware. That's a lot of hassle, though, so if I could find instructions for building a 3.10 kernel under OtherOS++ that would be a much better option for me. Could anyone help me out with that? Or is downgrading the better option?

Also, on a somewhat related note, I see that libspe was dropped from Debian a while back. What are our options for getting that back? I have several versions of the source lying around, but I'm wondering which one I should build? I'm assuming that the most recent one is best, but I think it was dropped from Debian because of some errors with it?

Once again, I'd really appreciate some help/advice on this. I've been trying for ages to get all these problems sorted, but without success. Seeing that wheezy still works and that the spufs problem has been fixed is getting my hopes up that I can finally get everything back working again like I had it before Sony messed everything up.

Cheer,
dec