FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 2, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: [FYI] debian-installer for SONY PS3 To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Takeshi Yaegashi, who is my friend, succeeded to install Debian on SONY PlayStation 3 (PS3). PS3 is PPC64 architecture and some Linux distributions and NetBSD are already ported for PS3. His wiki describes how you can install Debian on PS3 by using his customized Debian-Installer: http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Installer SVN diff against current d-i trunk (still under development, he is carefully changing d-i to keep small): http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Installer/Porting Although I haven't PS3, it's very interesting that d-i merges his PS3 PPC specific patch for post-Etch. I talked with him for a while and he pointed some TODO. 1. We need newer kernel or patched kernel to support PS3 architecture. 2. We have to ITP ps3pf-utils package to use video on X and some features. 3. We have to use new kboot.udeb instead of other PPC installer. kboot is Linux based boot loader and can be installed from SONY official kit. It finds a boot configuration from the partition has specific label and loads the file. So we don't have to install something to install boot sector. kboot.udeb just locates the configuration file kboot.conf to /etc directory. Thanks, - -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkWaQRIACgkQQKW+7XLQPLEjWgCfe43uecBQxrPbWQ6NeR/7S51b XacAoMPWBWn8mA+IBpEVBVwU0fKTXLWJ =9QPL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
