Installing Linux on a Playstation 3

From Ruud Koot

• System software: 2.17
• OtherOS Bootloader: 30-Jan-2008

Contents 1 Installing Gentoo 2 Updating the Kernel 2.1 Sixaxis 2.2 Wireless 2.3 UDF 2.5 2.4 RSX 3 Installing the Cell SDK 4 Cell-aware software 4.1 MPlayer 4.2 spu-medialib 5 Compiling Emulators 5.1 DOSBox 5.2 MAME 5.3 SNES 6 External links 6.1 Linux 6.2 Cell Broadband Engine 6.3 Reality Synthesizer 6.4 Hacking 6.5 Hypervisor

[edit] Installing Gentoo

• http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/InstallGentooOnPS3

[edit] Updating the Kernel

[edit] Sixaxis

[edit] Wireless

[edit] UDF 2.5

[edit] RSX

[edit] Installing the Cell SDK

[edit] Cell-aware software

[edit] MPlayer

[edit] spu-medialib

[edit] Compiling Emulators

[edit] DOSBox

[edit] MAME

[edit] SNES

[edit] External links

[edit] Linux

• Installing Gentoo on a PS3 -- Update 2/6/2008
• Ubuntu on a Playstation 3
  • HOWTO: Install actual kernel with WIFI+UDF2.50+SIXAXIS
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PlayStation/
• http://www.ps3cluster.org/

[edit] Cell Broadband Engine

• A Rough Guide to Scientific Computing On the PlayStation 3
• http://www.codesourcery.com/vsiplplusplus/cell_whitepaper.pdf
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellsecurity/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=739
• http://www.rapidmind.net/

[edit] Reality Synthesizer

• ps3rsx
• PS3RSX Binary driver support
• The hunt for HV's FIFO/Push buffer...
• Ps3 Hypervisor's Fifo/push Buffer Located And Altered!

[edit] Hacking

• psDevWiki
• http://forums.qj.net/f-ps3-hacks-exploits-and-homebrew-282.html/
• http://www.infectus.biz/tutorialps3nand-en.php

[edit] Hypervisor

• http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/PowerPC_Hypercall_ABI
• http://www.research.ibm.com/hypervisor/#AEN87
  • http://www.research.ibm.com/hypervisor/HackersGuide.shtml
• http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html