PS3 PlayStation Port of Fedora.

Last modified: [[Date(2007-04-02T02:40:01Z)]
Owners: Edward O'Callaghan.
Targeted release: Fedora 7

Status

Current Fedora

Fedora 10 works with a usb stick bootloader.
Please read PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin for more info on creating a custom ps3 boot media with the needed bootloader from iso.

Fedora 11 Alpha

There is no ppc kernel working at this time 2/11/2009

Fedora 10

Fedora 10 supports the PS3 our of the box minus the ps3 bootloader on the default fedora install media

Fedora 9

Fedora 9 supports the PS3 with minor problems.
Installation works "out-of-the-box".

453311 "pulseaudio does not start"

Older and additional information

The Fedora rawhide kernel supports PS3.

An 'otheros.bld' bootloader for Fedora, using petitboot , can be found at [1] . Work is ongoing to get this automatically generated with the Fedora install tree.

The installer doesn't yet work out of the box -- we still need minor patches to kudzu and anaconda .

The "PlayStation 3 support tracker" bug is [2] .

We don't yet have libspu and the spu compiler in Extras.

Instructions on installing a rawhide-based tree can be found at [3]

WiFi will now be supported with a firmware update to 1.6 or higher

See below for details...

usb stick bootloader

You need to create a usbstick with a boot loader

  cd /media/<USBSTICK>
  mkdir -p /ps3/otheros
  wget http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/downloads/bin-0.2/otheros.bld

or should this be http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/ps3-petitboot-rc-08.06.27.bld ?

You can install F10 with normal ppc iso with a boot loader, please have a usb stick to add your boot loader ,

Summary

PS3 PlayStation port of Fedora. i.e. - PPC with Cell patches and optimization.

Cut out unneeded services and packages and build a PS3 only spin of Fedora optimized for a multimedia user.

Usage cases/rationale

PS3 user who browers the web, looks at photos, listens to music and watches DVD's.

Scope

Requires the PPC build; Un-needed packages to be removed and any patches required to get ALL hardware supported.

Test Plan

Unknown, maybe three Builds:

Alpha
Beta
RC or Final.

Dependencies

Depends on the PPC Kernel and Cell patches...

Kernel patchs are here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux-patches.git;a=summary

(See Below) Add driver support for the built in WiFi module and add a small X11 app to bring the adapter up and down in the main menu, will add more to this later on...

Add support for the BD Bluetooth PS3 remote control and map buttons on startup by default.

Think of ways to get around the Hypervisor to get access to the GPU ? - Real help is needed here !

A idea was too use the SPU's as a GPU for basic OpenGL 3D so that videos can be watch in full screen ! This is not a fix but would help for the moment, any one who would like to help code this please put your name here and I will contact you ASAP:

FirstnameLastname MarioTorre

N.B. Using the SPU's for a Graphics Accelerator would use up some of the valuable system RAM.

"A petition has been created to ask Sony to open the access to the RSX for Other OS. Maybe will it contribute to make the firm hear our need, maybe not... but if we don't ask for sure it won't.

You'll find it there: http://www.petitiononline.com/RSX/petition.html

Please if you sign do it with your real name, nick names won't give a serious credit to our ask. Thanks"

Details

... insert design & implementation details here, including links to other features ...

Design

Fluxbox as the Desktop as of low RAM available.

or maybe OpenBox with fbpanel like:

Its very fast and looks nice!

Package collection

PackageKit should not be part of a ps3 build. It has a poor performance.
Also we should ship some alternative solutions for OpenOffice, Pidgin, Firefox....

WiFi Support and Configuration

Status: Driver should be back ported soon... Status: More to come; http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux-patches.git;a=commit;h=5ba09ee3f727508064c25d3bbb07e262f79e4380

Configuration

Run system-config-network as root. Note: eth0 is both the wired and wireless adapter.

Driver Support

It would seem that YDL has a driver for the WiFi in the PS3, I will look into this in more detail over the coming days and if and when it will be back ported into Fedora and or the Linux kernel.

Howto : Enable the PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote

Pairing the Device

Make sure the services bluetooth and hidd are running. With a clean install of current rawhide, hidd fails to start. If this is the case, stop bluetooth, start hidd, and finally start bluetooth again. This problem disappears after the first connect. A bug report about this already exists.

While pressing the 'Start' & 'Enter' keys down, run the following command:

$ su -c "/usr/bin/hidd --search"

After a while this should display something like this:

Searching ...
Connecting to device 00:19:C1:2D:91:F2

The remote should be paired now.

Something needs to be done to get it in a usable state, though. Additional developer information is available at PlayStation/BDRemote .

Documentation

End user documentation should be linked from here...

The PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin page pulls together information relating to the recreation of a Fedora boot.iso file. This information is vital to the Fedora 8 release. There is a bug that prevents loading Fedora 8 on the PS3 console.

The PlayStation/LinuxConfiguration shows how to use the PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin CDs to enable Fedora on the PlayStation game console.

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