Re: [LUG] OT: Play Station 3

["Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:48:58AM +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:04 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> >  > and allow the young people to
> >  > select the music or video they want. On top of that the young people
> >  > also want a ps3.
> >
> >  There is work to run Debian on a PS3 (or do you still want to play the
> >  games on it afterwards?)
> >
> 
> Do you know if its possible to access the 3D hardware or is it all
> locked down like the PS2 linux kit was?.

If I remember correctly, you can use most of the hardware, but not all;
something like six of the seven processors are available, and the last is
"reserved by the OS". I seem to recall this applies even if "the OS" is
GNU/Linux.

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