On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:35 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> how sure are we that the Cell's run a stock Linux distro out of the box
> ? does yaboot even work for Cell ? { what firmware does that box have ? }
Now this should probably go over to the developer list (there is one,
right?), but I'll post it here since I'm sure others are interested.
I know that for a distro to boot on a PS3, something has to be modified.
>From what I recall, it's quite minor. Sony actually supplies the
instructions on how to do it, so any PPC Linux distro can be installed
and run on a PS3. I think they give an example using Fedora Core 5.
Here's the developer site with the documentation:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php
Regards,
Ranbir
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